Donald Richie Quotes

• Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.

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  Travel   Japan   Together  

  Donald Richie (1998). “A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan”, p.16, Stone Bridge Press, Inc.

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• Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.

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  Loneliness   Poverty   Rich  

  Donald Richie (2007). “A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics”, p.47, Stone Bridge Press

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• Midlife crisis begins sometime in your 40s, when you look at your life and think, 'Is this all?' And it ends about 10 years later, when you look at your life again and think, 'Actually, this is pretty good.'

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  Thinking   Years   Looks  

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• The distinction between East and West is that the Western novel is very organized, it's very logical, there's a logical progression, there's a chronological progression, and there's a safety in that. Whereas if you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.

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  Safety   Film   Progression  

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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