“Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make such huge profits. I hate to say it, but they're like drug dealers.”

—  Haruki Murakami , book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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