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Ryu Murakami

  • Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
    Americans don’t talk about just grinning and bearing it, which is the Japanese approach to so many things.
  • Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
    . The type of loneliness where you need to keep struggling to accept a situation is fundamentally different from the sort you know you’ll get through if you just hang in there
  • Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
    The bastard gets all pumped up talking about baseball, and then when I try to join in he suddenly loses interest and seems anxious to drop the subject altogether.
  • Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
    Japan is one of the richest countries in the world, why do you have this karoshi problem, people literally working themselves to death? Or: Girls from poor Asian countries I can understand, but why do high-school girls in a country as wealthy as Japan prostitute themselves? Or: Wherever you go in the world, people work in order to make their families happy, so why doesn’t anybody in Japan complain about the tanshin-funin system that sends businessmen off to live on their own in distant cities or countries? I
  • Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
    But why is it that if you imagine a baby who smells of milk, for example, you can’t help smiling? Why is there such agreement around the world about what is or isn’t a foul smell? Who decided what smells bad? Is it impossible that somewhere in this world there are people who, if they sat next to a homeless fellow they’d get an urge to snuggle up to him, but if they sat next to a baby they’d get an urge to kill it? Something tells me there must be people like that somewhere, Kenji.”
  • Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
    . I stretched briefly, thinking: Could the view possibly be any bleaker?
  • Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
    I took the coins, thinking: If he had change, why didn’t he pull it out at the photo booth?
  • Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
    What this was supposed to prove, I couldn’t tell you. Genuine rich guys never carry a lot of cash around, and I didn’t see any credit cards in there.
  • Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
    Parents, teachers, government—they all teach you how to live the dreary, deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you how to live normally.
  • Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
    ast, a man from Texas, had told me how astonished he was when he went to Shibuya. He said: “I thought I was in Harlem or someplace, all those kids walking around looking like black hip-hop artists, wearing their Walkmans, some had skateboards, too, but what was amazing was, here they are completely copying the fashions of African-
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