if you wanna be somebody be yourself dont try to be anybody… - Yasunari Kawabata

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if you wanna be somebody be yourself dont try to be anybody your not

Yasunari Kawabata

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Yasunari Kawabata [川端康成 Kawabata Yasunari] (14 June 1899 – 16 April 1972) was a Japanese short story writer and novelist known for his spare, lyrical, and subtly-shaded prose. In 1968 he became the first Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Native Name: 川端康成

Alternative Names: Kawabata Yasunari • KAWABATA Yasunari

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From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.

Her manner was as though she were talking of a distant foreign literature. There was something lonely, something sad in it, something that rather suggested a beggar who has lost all desire.

A secret, if it’s kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.

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