Norwegian Wood Quotes - Page 3

• I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Disappointment, Loneliness

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.68, Random House

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• When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Falling In Love, Falling For You, Giving

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.354, Random House

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• She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.

  Haruki Murakami

  Expression, Scary, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 15, 2015

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• But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.

  Haruki Murakami

  Morning, Loneliness, Book

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 01, 2017

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• I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Eye, Enough

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 24, 2015

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• Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

  Haruki Murakami

  Action, Standards, Ideals

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.71, Random House

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• Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fate, Storm, Adjusting

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami. Chapter One, September 12, 2002.

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• It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.

  Haruki Murakami

  Morning, Spring, Good Day

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 08, 2015

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• I work through teams. It’s the only way I know how to work.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Team, Way, Dexter Morgan

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• Maybe the star doesnt even exist any more.Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

  Haruki Murakami

  Stars, Real, Light

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• Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

  Tony Fadell

  Way, Dexter Morgan, Mother Night

  "Q&A: Tony Fadell, CEO of Nest, on making home products cool". Interview with Dana Hull, www.mercurynews.com. October 18, 2013.

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• A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

  Haruki Murakami

  Gentleman, Doe, Want

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.72, Random House

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• That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dark, Thinking, Shadow Of Death

  "Norwegian Wood". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 10, 2011.

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• It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Together, Crumbling

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• Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Hurt, Loss

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• "I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough."
  "Waiting for perfect love?"
  "No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you're doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And I say I don't want it anymore and throw it out the window. That's what I'm looking for."

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Perfect, Long

  "Norwegian Wood". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2011.

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• Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Expecting, Form

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• All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard.

  Patricia Barber

  Song, Thinking, Musician

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to feel whenever Naoko stared into my eyes. I had no way to deal with it, no place I could take it to or hide it away. Like the wind passing over my body, it had neither shape nor weight, nor could I wrap myself in it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sadness, Eye, Wind

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• When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would just keep raining so the three of us could stay together.

  Haruki Murakami

  Rain, Wish, Together

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.213, Random House

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• Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely adapted to the world," I said after giving it some thought. "I don't know, I feel like this isn't the real world. The people, the scene: they just don't seem real to me." Midori rested an elbow on the bar and looked at me. "There was something like that in a Jim Morrison song, I'm pretty sure." People are strange when you're a stranger.

  Haruki Murakami

  Song, Real, People

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