All HARUKI MURAKAMI Quotes about “Boat”

“You donâ€™t get it, do you?" I said. â€œItâ€™s not a question of â€˜what thenâ€™. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables and thatâ€™s all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out of matchsticks. So whatâ€™s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?”
“Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course.”
“Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet Ingrid Bergman. Or more realistically - whether actually more realistic or not - I'd tune in on a better life, something more suited to my true self. Toward that end, I had to undergo training. I read The Greening of America, and I saw Easy Rider three times. But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return.”

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