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A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3) QUOTES

A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3) QUOTES

1 " Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you. "

― Haruki Murakami , A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

2 " Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories. "

― Haruki Murakami , A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

3 " Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit. "

― Haruki Murakami , A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

4 " Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context. "

― Haruki Murakami , A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

5 " Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on. "

― Haruki Murakami , A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

6 " Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me. "

― Haruki Murakami , A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

7 " There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me. "

― Haruki Murakami , A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

8 " Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain. "

― Haruki Murakami , A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

9 " From the photo albums, every single print of her had been peeled away. Shots of the both of us together had been cut, the parts with her neatly trimmed away, leaving my image behind. Photos of me alone or of mountains and rivers and deer and cats were left intact. Three albums rendered into a revised past. It was as if I'd been alone at birth, alone all my days, and would continue alone. "

― Haruki Murakami , A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

10 " I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off. "

― Haruki Murakami , A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

11 " It is cognition that is the fantasy.... Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and rearrange them as I might, I will never be able to explain to you the form of Will... My explanation would only show the correlation between myself and that Will by means of a correlation on the verbal level. The negation of cognition thus correlates to the negation of language. For when those two pillars of Western humanism, individual cognition and evolutionary continuity, lose their meaning, language loses meaning. Existence ceases for the individuum as we know it, and all becomes chaos. You cease to be a unique entity unto yourself, but exist simply as chaos. And not just the chaos that is you; your chaos is also my chaos. To wit, existence is communication, and communication, existence. "

― Haruki Murakami , A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

12 " As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express. "

― Haruki Murakami , A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

13 " I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize? "

― Haruki Murakami , A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

14 " There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why, ninety-five percent of the information that reaches you has already been preselected and paid for. "

― Haruki Murakami , A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

15 " A friend to kill time is a friend sublime. "

― Haruki Murakami , A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

16 " There are symbolic dreams-dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities-realities that symbolize a dream "

― Haruki Murakami , A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

17 " The second whiskey is always my favorite. From the third on, it no longer has any taste. It's just something to pour into your stomach. "

― Haruki Murakami , A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

18 " Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment. Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories. "

― Haruki Murakami , A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

19 " The light of morning decomposes everything. "

― Haruki Murakami , A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

20 " I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over. "

― Haruki Murakami , A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)