#meth

My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#heroes #how #know #other #people

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#i #just #me #parallel #realized

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #country #feel #i #i am

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#else #father #i #japanese #just

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years. I don't get bored. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#bored #doing #fast #get #i

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#kind #language #make #make up #new

Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#find #go #i #i can #just

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#love #love is #oneself #other #real

Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it? ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#i #order #something #spend #why

If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#company #day #difficult #doing #head