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I'm kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I'm always hot.


Haruki Murakami

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HARUKI MURAKAMI Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, gra...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't kee...
HARUKI MURAKAMI But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in scho...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a...
HARUKI MURAKAMI If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin...
HARUKI MURAKAMI No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i...
HARUKI MURAKAMI For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth...
HARUKI MURAKAMI For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.
HARUKI MURAKAMI You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.
HARUKI MURAKAMI When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unh...
HARUKI MURAKAMI George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don&#...
HARUKI MURAKAMI You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes yo...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
HARUKI MURAKAMI These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say somethi...
HARUKI MURAKAMI From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we t...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.
HARUKI MURAKAMI He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anyth...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.
HARUKI MURAKAMI The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the...
HARUKI MURAKAMI A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were n...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.
HARUKI MURAKAMI But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.
HARUKI MURAKAMI If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jo...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Night...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you nee...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Nah, I shook my head, things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that’s all.

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HARUKI MURAKAMI We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died...
HARUKI MURAKAMI It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical
HARUKI MURAKAMI I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book;...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking. People came to him, but in the ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.
HARUKI MURAKAMI The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be lear...
HARUKI MURAKAMI People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Wherever there's hope there's a trial.
HARUKI MURAKAMI The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm just ordinary guy, ordinary family, ordinary education, ordinary face, ordinary exam results, or...
HARUKI MURAKAMI He wasn't normally conscious of it, but there was one part of his body that was extremely sensitive,...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are ...
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