Quotes by : Minae Mizumura

For Japanese people before 1868, Europeans were little more than curious beasts, strange and incomprehensible.....

waging war against inane language that circulates almost automatically is a writer's eternal mission,....

Writing a modern novel in a national language hence means writing with the awareness that you inhabit....

Since language produces meaning within an enclosed system, there is always a built-in untranslatability,....

Does writing exist for the typewriter, or the typewriter for writing? . . . the invention of the computer....

Phonocentrism places higher value on spoken language as being more primary than and thus superior to....

Life is a tiring business indeed.Soy sauce runs out. Milk runs out. Dishwashing detergent runs out. Lancôme....

Transported to a different culture, thought often loses its subtlety and can even rampage like a wild....

Presently a soprano voice of richness and depth floated from the open windows of the parlor, resonating....

Perhaps when a nation goes through a period of upheaval, those who should become politicians, do.