Actually, I’m extremely dissatisfied with being who I am. It’s nothing to do with my looks or abilities or status or any of that. It simply has to do with being me. The situation strikes me as grossly unfair.
Haruki MurakamiTime had the power to cancel all changes wrought by human artifice, overwriting all new revisions with further revisions, returning the flow to its original course
Haruki MurakamiWhat Tengo would have to do, it seemed, was take a hard, honest look at the past while standing at the crossroads of the present. Then he could create a future, as thought he were rewriting the past.It was the only way
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There has to be pain. That’s the rule
Haruki MurakamiHis father said nothing. Instead, he looked straight at Tengo as if he were reading a bulletin written in a foreign language."
1Q84, Murakami
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Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.
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Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.
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I never had what it takes to make a first-rate anything.'
'That's wrong,' she declared. 'Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it?' But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.
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Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
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I also happened to identify with Julien Sorel. Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building blocks of your life in place by that age was, by any standard, a tragedy.
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