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Let's face it: the world is twisted. And rotten.
Natsuo Kirino / Novelist
Faces
Rotten
World
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My talent was the uncompromising ability to feel spite.
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Ability
Spite
Talent
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I suppose I’m the one responsible for destroying myself.
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Destroying
Responsible
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I decided then and there I was never going to have kids.
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Kids
Decided
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I was in a self-induced depression. Welcome to me Real World.
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Real
Self
World
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If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die
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Choices
Dies
People
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The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.
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Criminals
Detective Stories
Detective
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And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself?
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Accepting
Order
What If
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I’m still afraid of being totally honest. I’m more afraid of this than dying.
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Dying
Honest
Stills
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I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.
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Gain
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A women who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations.
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Choices
Doe
People
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Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don’t understand you at all.
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Knows
Seems
Weird Things
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In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.
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Men
Order
Thinking
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It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people.
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Creatures
People
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Kids lose their trust in the parents they love, but still accept them, so they end up not trusting themselves anymore.
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Kids
Accepting
Parent
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In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
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Economic
Economic Power
Existence
Faceless
Japan
Anonymous
Lead
Full-Time
Socially
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I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.
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Juvenile
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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Crime
Author
Reality People See
Crack
Explore
Impinge
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I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really hard to survive.
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Emotion
Ideas
Personality
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One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize in Japan, mostly for mysteries and thrillers.
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Japan
Prestigious
Rain
Thrillers
Books
Earned
Falling
Literary
Mostly
Mysteries
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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Foreigners
Age Group
Appeal
Convey
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'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of an obvious choice for being the first book to be translated into English.
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Breakthrough
Japan
Obvious
Sold
Translated
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It's a very confusing experience living as a woman in Japan. If your husband is white-collar, the wife is blue. Even if you marry a person of status, the wife inevitably remains a rung below.
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Blue
Confusing
Husband
Japan
Remains
White Collar
Below
Marry
Inevitably
Rung
Status
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A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people’s evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.
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Choices
Lying
People
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For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open the trash cans and look at what people have thrown away.
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Location
Senses
Thrown
Trash
Cans
Look Research People
First Thing
Involve
Notice
Smells
The First Thing
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I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially good at anything, and I didn't have a lot of experiences. I was just a young woman without a good job.
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Good Job
Young Woman
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[..] and there are tons of people I hate so much that I wouldn't mind taking them out. But killing them wouldn't get me anywhere - that's the conclusion I always come to. If I'm going to pay for it in the end, I might as well let them live.
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Hate
Mind
People
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For a girl, appearance can be a powerful form of oppression. No matter how intelligent a girl may be, no matter her many talents, these attributes are not easily discerned. Brains and talent will never stand up against a girl who is clearly physically attractive.
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Girl
Intelligent
Powerful
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When stones lying warm in the sun were turned over, they exposed the cold, damp earth underneath; and that was where Masako had burrowed deep. There was no trace of warmth in this dark earth, yet for a bug curled up tight in it, it was a peaceful and familiar world.
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Dark
Lying
Peaceful
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I was frightened by the optimism of adults, their stupid trust in science to treat a troubled heart. Afraid of their obsession with believing they have to treat troubled kids. I just wanted them to leave me alone, so how come they didn't get it? But that's the way it always is.
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Kids
Believe
Stupid
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Fortunately for me, I ran across some girls I could get along with so I could enjoy high school life okay, but it must be awful for kids who don't get along with anybody. We're different from our parents, a completely different species from our teachers. And kids who are one grade apart you are in a different world altogether. In other words, we're basically surrounded by enemies and have to make it on our own.
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Girl
Teacher
School
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In reality of everyday occurrences I've had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It's less the submission that bothers me, I guess, than how it makes my life miserable. And what happens if I can't forgive myself for making that choice? And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself? What am I supposed to do? Conclusion: It'd be best if I'm destroyed. The best thing is for me just to vanish.
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Order
People
Reality
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