vintageanchor: “They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.” ― Yasunari Kawabata, The Sound of the Mountain Today is the anniversary of the birth of Yasunari Kawabata (born in 1899; d.1972), the first Japanese writer to win a Nobel prize for literature, in 1968.

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“They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, The Sound of the Mountain

Today is the anniversary of the birth of Yasunari Kawabata (born in 1899; d.1972), the first Japanese writer to win a Nobel prize for literature, in 1968.

(Source: vintageanchorbooks, via npr)