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Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands.

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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
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