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For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. what i want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

-Haruki Murakami

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For Novelists Or Musicians, If They Really

Haruki Murakami

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. what i want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

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Here is edward bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind christopher robin. it is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. and then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

There was only one catch and that was catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. orr was crazy and could be grounded. all he had to do was ask, and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. if he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

There was only one catch and that was catch-22. orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. if he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

What would things been like [in russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?

The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. the creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. a new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making.

I had never thought of doing television. but my agent wanted me to meet john wells, who had had a lot of success producing er and china beach. the night before the meeting, some friends were over for dinner and akiva goldsman and i slipped downstairs to the basement so we could sneak a cigarette. he said, "you know what would make a good television series? that." and he was pointing at the american president poster. he said, "there doesn't have to be a romance, just focus on a senior staffer."

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