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I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.
Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
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Science Fiction Writer
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Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
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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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Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.
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Life: I'll never understand it.
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Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
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If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage
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