“What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.”
Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist
Source: After the Quake
“That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail.”
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
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