"That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories."
Haruki Murakami, from 1Q84 (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011) (via apoetreflects)
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Haruki Murakami is still the favorite to win this year’s Nobel Prize in literature. UK betting company Ladbrokes has him pegged at 6/4 odds. But our money is on E. L. James, of 50 Shades fame, who comes in at 500/1 odds.
"There are some things about myself that I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail, the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared, I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being."
Haruki Murakami, A Slow Boat To China (via lebovarysme)
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"I’m still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack. But then, it might not have been a question of right and wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa. I myself have adopted the position that, in fact, we never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not."
Haruki Murakami (Second Bakery Attack)
UK covers for 1Q84
I’ve been waiting so long. Just a little bit more.
