January 2012
5 posts
“Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the...”
– Adam Gopnik (via prettybooks)
where cats with bent tails live: Norwegian Wood's... →
murakamistuff:
Reminder: Norwegian Wood comes to US theaters today. Go for it, all you Americans out there.
Interesting side note: The Wall Street Journal put up an article on how Haruki Murakami helped writing the first drafts of Trần Anh Hùng’s screenplay for the film. Trần:
“I was…
December 2011
14 posts
“We got into her bed and held each other, kissing as the sound of the rain filled...”
– Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood (via princessincognito)
“You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and...”
– Ryan Gosling, actor and feminist, in a letter protesting the NC-17 rating of Blue Valentine. The rating was based on one consensual sex scene, in which he goes down on Michelle Williams. (via snowstorminjuly)
November 2011
4 posts
“It feels like everything’s been decided in advance - that I’m following a path...”
– Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
(via jobellezamora)
October 2011
19 posts
“…you read an artist’s book not with your heart (the heart is a remarkably stupid...”
– Vladimir Nabakov (source)
“Numbers aren’t the important thing. The countdown has no meaning. Now he knew:...”
– Haruki Murakami - The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day (via murakamistuff)
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“[ It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat
but often the shadow seems more...”
– After a Death by Tomas Tranströmer (via the-final-sentence)
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Trying To Get Comfortable While Reading
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“I have never been
So insulted in all my life
I could swallow the seas
To wash...”
– Fiona Apple
September 2011
5 posts
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Magellan On The Catholic Church & Science
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“The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of the earth on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.”
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“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement....”
– Mary Oliver, from “When Death Comes” (via bookoasis)
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August 2011
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“And yet does it not all come again to the fact that it is a man’s world? For if...”
– The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via redwagon)
