“A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.”
“Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still are.”
“over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.”
“maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it”
“Reality is the page. Life is the word.”
“We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.”
“How do you smuggle daydreams into reality?”
“Yet for the first time in three days, I want something. I want the forest lord to turn me into a cedar. The very oldest islanders say that if you are in the interior mountains on the night when the forest lord counts his trees, he includes you in the number and turns you into a tree.”
“why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most”
“She let him finish her sentences for her for so long that now he starts them too.”
“Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality”
“The body is the outermost layer of the mind.”
“All these people like my mother paying counselors and clinics to reattach them to reality; all of us people here paying Sony and Sega to reattach us to unreality.”
“Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.”
“I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.”
“Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.”
“A Muzak version of 'Imagine' comes on and John Lennon wakes up in his tomb, appalled.”
“Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.”
“This is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think.”
“During those nine pouched-up months, what do babies imagine? Gills, swamps, battlefields? To people in wombs, what is imagined and what is real must be one and the same.”
“You look for your meaning. You find it, and at that moment, your meaning changes, and you have to start all over again.”
“It was only a wasp,’ I say, ‘there are plenty more where they came from.’ This is not good enough for Tomomi: ‘There are plenty more humans where we come from, so does that make homicide okay?”
“Life is sheer bliss when it wants to be.”
“Tokyo is too close up to see, sometimes. There are no distances and everything is above your head - dentists, kindergartens, dance studios. Even the roads and walkways are up on murky stilts. An evil-twin Venice with all the water drained away.”
“A single night is stuffed with minutes, but they leak out, one by one.”
“I feel sad that I found what I searched for, but no longer want what I found.”
“Do soldiers feel this, when they get back from a war? The utter weirdness of utter normality.”
“Mrs.Comb tightened her headscarf and wondered why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most. She could not understand it. She could not begin to understand.”
“Cats seem too transdimensional to get hit by traffic, but it happens all the time.”
“The truth is "#9dream" is a descendant of "Norwegian Wood". Both are ghost stories. "She" in "Norwegian Wood" curses you with loneliness. The "Two spirits dancing so strange" in "#9dream" bless you with harmony. But people prefer loneliness to harmony.”
“Vengeance is mine saith the Lord but this morning He's going to fucking well have to share.”
“Nonetheless, gazing out the train window at a random sample of the Western world, I could not avoid noticing a kind of separation between human beings and all other species. We cut ourselves off by living in cement blocks, moving around in glass-and-metal bubbles, and spending a good part of our time watching other human beings on television. Outside, the pale light of an April sun was shining down on a suburb. I opened a newspaper and all I could find were pictures of human beings and articles about their activities. There was not a single article about another species. ”
“Draußen verwässert erstes Morgenlicht das satte Nachtschwarz des Himmels. Es ist der Moment, in dem Gestern zu Morgen wird und es für eine kurze Zeit kein Heute gibt.”
“Is a rope around the neck and a drop from the gallows all that we can do for a guy who lived his life without ever smiling? ~ Inoue”
“It is human nature to seek revenge in the face of relentless suffering. You can’t expect an unhealthy person to think logically.”
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