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Quizás aun no te comprenda. Pero, con un poco de tiempo, llegaré a entenderte. Y no habrá nadie en el mundo que te comprenda mejor que yo.

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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like...more

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I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.

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I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much. Myself, I'm a very realistic person. I don't trust anything New Age -- or reincarnat...more

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Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't ...more

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I might have been afraid that if I really loved someone and needed her, one day she might suddenly disappear without a word, and I'd be left all alone...more

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Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I'll do some thinking. Ob—la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on.

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Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone of loneliness in my life. She expanded the outer ...more

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But you knoe, she's right. Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious.

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My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every o...more

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Rock and roll was my favorite, but before long I grew to enjoy Shinamoto's brand of classical music. This was music from another world, which had its ...more

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Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of shari...more

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He stopped complaining, but now I was annoyed. I went to the roof and drank alone.

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I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the m...more

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I think of human existence as being like a two-story house. On the rst oor people gather together to take their meals, watch television, and talk. e s...more