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In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.
Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
Athletics Competitor
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Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
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Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
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It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.
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If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.
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For a while is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.
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I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep.
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But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.
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What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.
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My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.
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Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.
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Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.
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