Ruth Ozeki Quotes

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• Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Memories, Eye, Past

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

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• The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

  Ruth Ozeki

  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!

  Ruth Ozeki

  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.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Thinking, People, Perspective

  Source: 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.

  Ruth Ozeki

  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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• I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.

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  Beautiful, Memories, Cherry Blossom

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

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  Over It

  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.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Life, Answers

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

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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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• 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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• The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.

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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.

  Ruth Ozeki

  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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• 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.

  Ruth Ozeki

  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.

  Ruth Ozeki

  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.

  Ruth Ozeki

  War, Engineering, Iraq

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• Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.

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  Water, Information, Hard

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.168, Canongate Books

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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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  Book, Writing, Successful

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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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