Haruki Murakami Quotes About Repetition
-
it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.
→ -
I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transform—or perhaps distort—yourself through that persistent repetition, and make that process a part of your own personality.
→ -
I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it's a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.
→
Related Authors
-
Yukio Mishima Author -
Philip Roth Novelist -
F. Scott Fitzgerald Author -
Umberto Eco Essayist -
Yasunari Kawabata Writer -
Paulo Coelho Lyricist -
Banana Yoshimoto Writer -
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Novelist -
Franz Kafka Writer -
Milan Kundera Writer -
Soseki Natsume Novelist -
Raymond Carver Writer -
Paul Auster Author -
Keigo Higashino Author -
John Irving Novelist -
Bob Dylan Musician -
Leo Tolstoy Writer -
Kobo Abe Writer -
Kenzaburo Oe Author -
Alice Munro Author