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“Listen--God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like--they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American comping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o--God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't.
~pages 286-287”
― Kafka on the Shore
~pages 286-287”
― Kafka on the Shore
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be very
useful in the real world, that's for sure.”
― Kafka on the Shore
useful in the real world, that's for sure.”
― Kafka on the Shore
“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.”
― Kafka on the Shore
change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.”
― Kafka on the Shore
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