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I write weird stories. I don'...

I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much ... But when I write, I write weird. That's very strange. When I'm getting more and more serious, I'm getting more and more weird.

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What I'd like to be is a uniq...

What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.

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The world in books seemed so ...

The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to.

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When I write a novel I put in...

When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western; I don't draw a distinction between the two.

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It seems to me that very sad ...

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

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I’ve had that kind of experie...

I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely have to go to this place, no matter what’. And most of the time, for some reason, the place is far away and hard to get to. I feel this overwhelming desire to know what kind of scenery the place has, or what people are doing there. It’s like measles - you can’t show other people exactly where the passion comes from. It’s curiosity in the purest sense. An inexplicable inspiration.

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I think certain types of proc...

I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transform—or perhaps distort—yourself through that persistent repetition, and make that process a part of your own personality.

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Sometimes when I'm with you, ...

Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind.

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The house kept its own time, ...

The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights, and as long as the weights were wound, the clock continued ticking away. But with people gone and the weights unattended, whole chunks of time were left to collect in deposits of faded life on the floor.

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There is nothing in this worl...

There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.

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Is action merely the incident...

Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?

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It's like a kid standing at t...

It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain.

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You live by yourself for a st...

You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been.

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Her pupils have taken on a lo...

Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake.

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Waves of thought are stirring...

Waves of thought are stirring. In a twilight corner of her consciousness, one tiny fragment and another tiny fragment call out wordlessly to eachother, their spreading ripples intermingling.

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two people can sleep in the s...

two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes

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She's kind of funny looking. ...

She's kind of funny looking. Her face is out of balance--broad forehead, button nose, freckled cheeks, and pointy ears. A slammed-together, rough sort of face you can't ignore. Still, the whole package isn't so bad. For all I know maybe she's not so wild about her own looks, but she seems comfortable with who she is, and that's the important thing.

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Somewhere in his body--perhap...

Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.

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Memory is so crazy! It's like...

Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.

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I’m free, I think. I shut my ...

I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don’t know, and I give up thinking about it.

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