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Quotes from Paris Review interview — Kenzaburō Ōe

1935–2023 Japan

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The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.

Paris Review interview (2007)

In principle, I am an anarchist. Kurt Vonnegut once said he was an agnostic who respects Jesus Christ. I am an anarchist who loves democracy.

Paris Review interview (2007)

I am the kind of writer who rewrites and rewrites.

Paris Review interview (2007)

I don’t have faith nor do I think I will have it in the future, but I’m not an atheist. My faith is that of a secular person. You might call it “morality.”

Paris Review interview (2007)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kenzaburō Ōe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.