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Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.
Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
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Still, in the end, we all die just the same.
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There has to be pain. That's the rule.
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In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.
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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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My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.
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An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.
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The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake.
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It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.
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That was the rule. Break one of my rules once, and I’m bound to break many more.
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People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.
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Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.
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Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace.
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You’re really cute, Midori,” I corrected myself. “What do you mean really cute?” “So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up.
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For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.
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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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Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on.
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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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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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If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.
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