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It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an american teenage girl or a japanese octogenarian man

-Curtis Sittenfeld

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It's Never That Hard For Me To

Curtis Sittenfeld

It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an american teenage girl or a japanese octogenarian man

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I don't speak japanese, i don't know anything about japanese business or japanese culture. apart from sushi. but i can't exactly go up to him and say "sushi!" out of the blue. it would be like going up to a top american businessman and saying, "t-bone steak!

ِan offer you can't refuse.

'st. elmo's fire' is one of my favorite films. i like the storytelling of those teenage american films. you don't get that now. teenage american movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes.

When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. when a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. when a man spends someone else's money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. and when a man spends someone else's money on someone else, he does't care how much he spends or what he spends it on. and that's government for you.

Take a random group of 8-year-old american and japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. the american kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. if you let the test run for 15 minutes, the japanese kids will not have given up. you have to take it away.

As an american man of the 1990s writing about a japanese woman of the 1930s, i needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, american to japanese, and present to past.

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