Ruth Ozeki Quotes

• A veces, cuando contaba historias del pasado, se le llenaban los ojos de lágrimas por todos los recuerdos que tenía, pero no eran lágrimas. No lloraba. Eran sólo recuerdos que se le escapaban.

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  Memories, Eye, Past

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel”, Penguin

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• Lo maravilloso de la naturaleza, su regalo para nosotros, es su promiscuidad gratuita. Se reproduce a sí misma con abandono, con una generosidad infinita.

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  Generosity, Infinite, Abandon

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “All Over Creation”, p.229, Canongate Books

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• Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

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  Life, Inspiring, Waste

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• I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.

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  Pensamiento, Personas, Perspectiva

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after the kids, but a lot of times it’s the other way around.

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  Kids, Worry, Parent

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel”, Penguin

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• Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes." "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing not a bad thing.

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  Dream, Crazy, Imagination

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• Tengo muy buena memoria, pero los recuerdos también son seres temporales, como los cerezos en flor o las hojas de ginkgo; durante un tiempo son hermosos, y luego se marchitan y mueren.

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  Beautiful, Memories, Cherry Blossom

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• Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.

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  Life Is, Failing, Consolation

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “All Over Creation”, p.346, Canongate Books

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• Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives.

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  Wake Up, Flow, Our Lives

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• But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then.

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  Por encima

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.88, Canongate Books

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• Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and this ceaseless arising and passing away is what we experience as time and being. They are not separate. They are one thing, and in even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.

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  Opportunity, Life And Death, Passing Away

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.273, Canongate Books

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• There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.

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  Life, Answers

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “My Year of Meats”, p.236, Canongate Books

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• The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn’t now, then where did it go ?

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  Mean, Past, Doe

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.87, Canongate Books

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• She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history. She missed people. She missed human intrigue, drama and power struggles. She needed her own species, not to talk to, necessarily, but just to be among, as a bystander in a crowd or an anonymous witness.

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  New York, Drama, Struggle

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• Lo importante era que éramos educados y no decíamos todas las cosas que nos hacían infelices, que era la única manera que sabíamos de querernos.

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  Important, Unhappy, Way

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.45, Canongate Books

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• The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.

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  Way, Reader, Reciprocal

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• Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.

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  Reality, Light, Fiction

  "Ruth Ozeki beats Thomas Pynchon to top Kitschie award" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2014.

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• language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.

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  Language, Form, Conjuring

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• Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.

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  Eye, Skins, Handwriting

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.

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  Needed, Knows

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “My Year of Meats”, p.261, Canongate Books

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• ...I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.

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  Life, Mean, Giving

  "A Tale For The Time Being". Book by Ruth Ozeki, www.npr.org. March 7, 2013.

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• By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they're already being done. It's sort of like the war in Iraq: By the time we know about it, it's almost a fait accompli. And that's certainly true with science.

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  War, Engineering, Iraq

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• Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.

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  Libro, Escritura, Éxito

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• What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?

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  Dream, What If, Wake Up

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel”, Penguin

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• She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.

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  Good Night, Stories, Life Is

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