Итак, я дочитала "Норвежский лес" Харуки Мураками. Рецензии писать я никогда не умела, поэтому лучше сохраню несколько цитат. Это не значит, что я с ними обязательно согласна - просто они мне нравятся.
Так случилось, что я читала книжку на английском, поэтому и цитаты будут английские. К тому же, не знаю почему, на английском они мне кажутся более логичными и понятными, чем в руском переводе.
"Being able to say you don't have any money [is the best thing about being rich]. Like, if I suggested to a classmate we should do something, she could say, 'Sorry, I don't have any money.' Which is something I could never say if the situation was reversed. If I said 'I don't have any money,' it would really mean 'I don't have any money.' It's sad. Like if a pretty girl says 'I look terrible today, I don't want to go out,' that's O.K., but if an ugly girl says the same thing people laugh at her."
Так случилось, что я читала книжку на английском, поэтому и цитаты будут английские. К тому же, не знаю почему, на английском они мне кажутся более логичными и понятными, чем в руском переводе.
"Being able to say you don't have any money [is the best thing about being rich]. Like, if I suggested to a classmate we should do something, she could say, 'Sorry, I don't have any money.' Which is something I could never say if the situation was reversed. If I said 'I don't have any money,' it would really mean 'I don't have any money.' It's sad. Like if a pretty girl says 'I look terrible today, I don't want to go out,' that's O.K., but if an ugly girl says the same thing people laugh at her."
"Do you have any idea how many people there are in the world who like to force stuff on people and have stuff forced on them? Tons! And then they make a big fuss, like 'I forced her', 'You forced me!' That's what they like. But I don't like it. I just do it because I have to."
"If I'm going to test myself, I want to do it in the biggest field there is - the nation. I want to see how high I can climb, how much power I can exercise in this insanely huge bureaucratic system."
"Sounds like a game."
"It is a game. I don't give a damn about power and money per se. Really, I don't. I may be a selfish bastard, but I'm incredibly cool about shit like that. I could be a Zen saint. The one thing I do have, though, is curiosity. I want to see what I can do out there in the big, tough world."
"Sounds like a game."
"It is a game. I don't give a damn about power and money per se. Really, I don't. I may be a selfish bastard, but I'm incredibly cool about shit like that. I could be a Zen saint. The one thing I do have, though, is curiosity. I want to see what I can do out there in the big, tough world."
"I look around me sometimes and I get sick to my stomach. Why the hell don't these bastards do something? I wonder. They don't do a damn thing, and then they moan about it."
Amazed at the harshness of his tone, I looked at Nagasawa.
"The way I see it, people are working hard. They're working their fingers to the bone. Or am I looking at the things wrong?"
"That's not hard work. It's just manual labour," Nagasawa said with finality. "The hard work I'm talking about is more self-directed and purposeful."
"But anyway, Toru, I'm not the smartest girl in the world. If anything, I'm sort of on the stupid side, and old-fashioned. I couldn't care less about 'systems' and 'responsibility'. All I want is to get married and have a man I love hold me in his arms every night and make babies. That's plenty for me. It's all I want out of life."
"You know what girls are like," he said. They turn 20 or 21 and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super-realistic. And when that happens, everything that seemed so sweet and loveable about them begins to look ordinary and depressing. Now when I see her, usually after we do it, she starts asking me, "What are you going to do after you graduate?""
"Well, what are you going to do after you graduate? "
Munching on a mouthful of smelt, he shook his head.
"What can I do? I'm in oil painting! Start worrying about things like that, and nobody's going to study oil painting! You don't do it to feed yourself. <...>"
"Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only arseholes do that."
