How could I not

like this photo?

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A Tweet for Tokyo Twilight

@tylermays

Ozu took sides.

His Mu was not mute.

Ozu Yasujiro et le kanji mu ( le vide, le néant )

He made himself nothing. — Philippians 2:7

The Knack in Style

Some think they must be wise, some elaborate, some concise; we believe that the knack in style is to write like a human being. — Walter Bagehot

The human core. — William James

Most people are other people. — Oscar Wilde

So desu ne: Noriko Somiya, Noriko Mamiya, Noriko Hirayama, Takako Numata, Akiko Miwa, Akiko, all yourself, not other people.

Eric Bentley

The quality you most like in a man?
Just quality itself. High equality as a human being.

The quality you most like in a woman?
Same.

— Randy Gener and Eric Bentley, A Proust Questionnaire for Eric Bentley

O Lucky Man!

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Oz-you

When I saw No Regrets for Our Youth, I thought, "Professor Somiya's daughter is a very talented actress."

Up there on the screen, one saw life itself." — Donald Richie, Yasujiro Ozu, in Japanese Portraits, p. 14.