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If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.

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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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I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.
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What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in my own body my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know.
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Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko
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I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.
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Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.
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Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.
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I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a feel for language and also a great affection for the work you're translating. If one of those elements is missing the translation won't be worth much.
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As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.
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Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).
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My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.
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Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.
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Nature is actually unnatural
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Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
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Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?
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Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.
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If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies.
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