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(pt.2 : “Normal people” by Sally Rooney & “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin :
https://norikaeden.hatenadiary.com/entry/2020/05/18/165522
1冊目, "Stoner" by John Williams
・They grew from passion to lust to a deep sensuality that renewed itself from moment to moment.
・Like all lovers, they spoke much of themselves, as if they might thereby understand the world which made them possible.
・(William complains about the changes in teaching of literature and attitude to the text) “as if a novel or poem is something to be studied and understood rather than experienced”.
・He thought of his parents, and they were nearly as strange as the child they had born. He felt a mixed pity for them and a distant love.
・It gave him a glimpse of the corrosive and unspoiled bitterness of youth.
・When he had thought of death before, he had thought of it either as a literally event or as the slow, quiet attribution of time against imperfect flesh.
・She looked at William with an intimacy and warmth that he thought were from gratitude and love.
・(The friendship between William and Finch were ) : casual, deep, and so guardedly intimate that it was almost impersonal.
・He did not allow himself the easy luxury of guilt.
・Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.
・He began to know that it(love)was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.
2冊目 "Born a crime" by Trevor Noah
・A knowledge man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom.
・We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.
・If my mother had one goal, it was to free my mind.
・I felt a flood of emotions rushing through me. It was everything I could do not to start crying.
・An interview is not a relationship. Relationships are built in the silences. You spend time with people, you observe them and interact with them, and you come to know them - and that is what apartheid stole from us : time.
・I was everywhere with everybody, and at the same time I was all by myself.
・I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done in life, any choice that I’ve made. (中略) Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. “What if...” “If only...” “I wonder what would have...” You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days.
・Nelson Mandela once said, “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” He was so right. When you make the effort to speak someone else’s language, even if it’s just phrases here and there, you are saying to them, “I understand that you have a culture and identity that exists beyond me.
・Love is a creative art. When you love someone you create a new world for them.
・"He thinks he’s the policeman of the world", she said. “And that’s the problem of the world. We have people who cannot police themselves, so they want to police everyone around them."
