#ted

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#been #belonged #company #easy #graduated

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years. I don't get bored. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#bored #doing #fast #get #i

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 young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#big #big companies #companies #company #getting

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#father #fought #generation #happened #i

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#relationship #substitute #supplied #taken-for-granted #utterly

I feel that people I trusted - I don't know who, on what level - have let me down, and I think they have behaved disgracefully, and it's for them to pay. And I think, frankly, that I'm the best person to see it through. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#best #down #feel #frankly #i

You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#board #build #committees #consulted #corporation

I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#launched #newspapers #operated #over #world

Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#after #ago #autobiography #coming #couple