Haruki Murakami Quotes

I contented myself with whiskey, for medicinal purposes. It helped numb my various aches and pains. Not that the alcohol actually reduced the pain; it just gave the pain a life of its own, apart from mine.

Haruki Murakami

• Alcohol
• Pains
• Medicinal purposes

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• I contented myself with whiskey, for medicinal purposes. It helped numb my various aches and pains. Not that the alcohol actually reduced the pain; it just gave the pain a life of its own, apart from mine.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Alcohol
  • Pains
  • Medicinal purposes