Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Quotes from book
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
Original title
走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること
(Japanese, 2007)
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is a memoir by Haruki Murakami in which he writes about his interest and participation in long-distance running. The book is translated by Philip Gabriel. Murakami started running in the early 1980s and since then has competed in over twenty marathons and an ultramarathon.
“If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.”
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“The only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.”
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“You have to wait until tomorrow to find out what tomorrow will bring.”
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“In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.”
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“I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.”
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“Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.”
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“What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!”
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“I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.”
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“…. solitude is, more or less, an inevitable consequence.”
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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