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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
Athletics Competitor
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Science Fiction Writer
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Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
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This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.
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One listless day followed another, with nothing to distinguish one from the next. You could have changed the order and no one would have noticed.
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Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a farmhouse. In an instant it's sucked back into the darkness behind and vanishes. But if you close your eyes, that point of light stays with you, just barely for a few moments.
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I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off.
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I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.
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You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.
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Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?
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Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.
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Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.
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It's all matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to But it's pretty much the same anywhere you go, you can manage.
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Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.
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A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all right. you’ve made it past Dead Man’s Curve and you’re out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.
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When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there was no friction?' Answer: 'Everything on earth would fly into space from the centrifugal force of revolution.' That was my mood.
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Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.
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she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing.
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In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.
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This was never any place I was meant to be. This isn’t a place for me.
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We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.
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Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist.
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As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.
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