#ark

Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#books #complicated #dark #feel #finish

Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#boring #dark #fictions #most #people

Yeah, at home it's all moonbeams and puppy-dog tails, so I guess I do have a darker side - and I like writing about it. ↗

— Ryan Murphy

#darker #guess #home #i #i do

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable. ↗

— Billy West

#clark gable #different #gable #john #john wayne

The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again. ↗

— Robert Musil

#attention #days #developed #disturbed #emotionally

When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#back #economy #feet #get #having

One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#characteristics #comes #company #compared #competitive

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#civilisation #ever #feeble #fire #first

I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey. ↗

— Joe Tex

#i #i was born #jersey #may #new

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#darkness #existed #kind #nothing #outside