“When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.”
― A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
― A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
“Hey Kizuki, I thought, you're not missing a damn thing. This world is a piece of shit. The assholes are earning their college credits and helping to create a society in their own disgusting image.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Cops, Hoshino concluded, not for the first time in his life, are just gangsters who get paid by the state.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“Life doesn’t always leave you a choice in how you live it.”
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“These guys are fakes. All they've got on their minds is impressing the new girls with the big words they're so proud of, while sticking their hanse up their skirts. And when they graduate,they cut their hair short and march off to work for Mitsubishi or IBM or Fuji Bank. They marry pretty wives who've never read Marx and have kids they give fancy names to that are enough to make you puke. Smash what educational-industrial complex? Don't make me laugh!”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
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