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Haruki Murakami
“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!”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

John Banville
“Where did this absurd rule come from, and why did we so meekly obey it? Under a tyrannical regime--and the Ireland of those days was a spiritual tyranny--the populace becomes so cowed that it does the state's work for it voluntarily. And as every tyrant knows, a people's own self-censorship is the kind that works best. In the 1990s, when revelations of clerical sexual abuse and the Catholic Church's cover-ups put an end to its hegemony almost overnight, my generation scratched its head and asked, in voices trembling with incredulity, 'How could we let them get away with it for so long?' But the question, of course, contained its own answer: We let them get away with it. Power is more often surrendered than seized.”
John Banville, Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir

Stuart Turton
“Life doesn’t always leave you a choice in how you live it.”
Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Haruki Murakami
“There are probably things people are better off not hearing … But they can’t go forever without hearing them. When the time comes, even if they stop their ears up tight, the air will vibrate and invade a person’s heart. You can’t prevent it. If you don’t like it, then the only solution is to live in a vacuum.”
Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

Robert Bolt
“When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.”
Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts

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