1q84 Murakami Quotes

#1. Somehow the world survived the Nazis, the atomic bomb, and modern music

Haruki Murakami

#2. The world is moving ahead on its own without my being aware of it, as if we're playing a game in which everybody else can move only when I have my eyes closed.

Haruki Murakami

#3. I don't like the kind of country living where you have to help. I like country living where there is help.

Fran Lebowitz

#4. The more you win, the better you're gonna get. It grows on itself.

Larry Bird

#5. Next she turned the gun upward and thrust the muzzle into her mouth. Now it was aimed directly at her cerebrum-- the gray labyrinth where consciousness resided.

Haruki Murakami

#6. You cannot bore people into buying your product - you can only interest them in buying it.

David Ogilvy

#7. I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. The creation of a triangular relationship among government, industry, and academia was, in its own way, one of the significant innovations that helped produce the technological revolution of the late twentieth century.

Walter Isaacson

#9. To Tengo, sexual desire was fundamentally an extension of a means of communication. And so, to look for sexual desire in a place where there was no possibility of communication seemed inappropriate to him.

Haruki Murakami

#10. You can't go anywhere if you just resign yourself to being attacked. A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person.

Haruki Murakami

#11. This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.

Haruki Murakami

#12. When mauma saw my raw eyes, she said, Ain't nobody can write down in a book what you worth.

Sue Monk Kidd

#13. There's no longer any place for a Big Brother in this real world of ours. Instead, these so-called Little People have come on the scene. Interesting verbal contrast, don't you think?

Haruki Murakami

#14. There's a need, too, for a special name in order to distinguish between this present world and the former world in which the police carried old-fashioned revolvers ... 1Q84 - that's what I'll call this new world. Q is for 'question mark'. A world that bears a question.

Haruki Murakami

#15. There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

Graham Nash

#16. You're a human, you should understand self-obsession.

Markus Zusak

#17. Sexy as she wanna be and she dancing next so close to me. I said please excuse, you steppin on expensive shoes.

Ne-Yo

#18. I did very much enjoy being part of an independent film. It was just the energy.

Kylie Minogue

#19. But pure, unadulterated feelings are dangerous in their own way. It is no easy feat for a flesh-and-blood human being to go on living with such feelings. That is why it is necessary for you to fasten your feelings to the earth - firmly, like attaching an anchor to a balloon.

Haruki Murakami

#20. Like it or not, I'm here now, in the year 1Q84. The 1984 that I knew no longer exists. It's 1Q84 now. The air has changed, the scene has changed.

Haruki Murakami

#21. At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition

Naomi Wolf

#22. I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

Robert Sheckley

#23. Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed

Richard J. Foster

#24. If you ask me, any religion that takes the end of the world as one of its central tenets is more or less bogus. In my view, the only thing that ever 'ends' is the individual.

Haruki Murakami

#25. I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don't know where I would go if I did. I feel utterly powerless, and that feeling is my prision. I entered of my own free will, I locked the door, and I threw away the key.

Haruki Murakami

#26. As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for gourmet meals instead of the fast food. We bring to life a more expansive understanding of life, ourselves, and others. We are more generous and assertive.

Sharon Stone

#27. Religion poisons everything good in this world.

Ryan Reynolds

#28. I love books that create worlds for me that I don't want to leave. I recently lost my entire life to Haruki Murakami - 1Q84. I tell people that book ruined my life in the best possible way. I couldn't think of anything else for weeks after I read it.

Sarah Kay

#29. His father said nothing. Instead, he looked straight at Tengo as if he were reading a bulletin written in a foreign language.
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Haruki Murakami