بواسطة لحم الخنزير الإبداعية10 Enlightening Haruki Murakami Quotes To Light Up The Left Side of Your Brain
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Haruki Murakami is a creative genius whose literary works are filled with beautiful insights that can be applied to our crazy world of creative churn and burn. We’ve compiled and repurposed our 10 favorite Haruki Murakami Quotes for those times when your creative side needs a little reminder. استمتع, لحم الخنزير!
1. For those long nights…
“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.” -هاروكي موراكامي
2. When you’re playing it safe to avoid criticism…
“If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.” -هاروكي موراكامي (may we add: do it anyways)
3. Or when you’re playing it safe to be politically correct…
“The more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive.” -هاروكي موراكامي
4. For the times you’re waiting on that promotion…
“Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.” -هاروكي موراكامي
5. Or when you want to hide away from the world…
“Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.” -هاروكي موراكامي
6. For that “straightforward” creative brief…
“Please remember: things are not what they seem.” -هاروكي موراكامي
7. To remind us of what a great idea حقا is…
“As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t.” -هاروكي موراكامي
8. To inspire a different approach to storytelling…
“Not all guns have to be fired. A pistol is just a tool and where I am living is not a story book world. It’s a real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.” -هاروكي موراكامي
10. And to discourage groupthink…
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” -هاروكي موراكامي
9. Lastly, this gem on the power of words…
“لا أن المعنى لا يمكن أن يفسر ذلك. ولكن هناك بعض المعاني التي فقدت إلى الأبد لحظة وأوضح أنهم في الكلمات.” -هاروكي موراكامي
