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The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan QUOTES

The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan QUOTES

1 " We are not defined by our individual loneliness, but by the web of relationships in which we’re enmeshed. "

― , The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan

2 " Reading about Japan in the West is often like looking at a funhouse mirror through a kaleidoscope. "

― , The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan

3 " Personally, I don’t bother with anything cheap—my mother always said cheap was dear in the long run—but some people aren’t fussy. "

― , The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan

4 " Wataru Tsurumi’s Complete Manual of Suicide. "

― , The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan

5 " Dad and I went on walking, our shadows touching. "

― , The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan

6 " Mono no aware, my son, is an empathy with the universe. "

― , The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan

7 " I would like a window seat,” I said, imagining the stars streaming by. "

― , The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan

8 " she likes the sound of languages other than English. "

― , The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan

9 " It’s hard to hear the music behind the words when their meanings get in the way,” she told me once. "

― , The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan

10 " Individual stones are not heroes, but all the stones together are heroic. "

― , The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan