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Memory is like fiction or else it's fiction that's like memory.
Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
Athletics Competitor
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Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
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Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain.
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Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.
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Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain.
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What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.
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I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.
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But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.
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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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People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic.
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Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.
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I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
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I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
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I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are like a reservoir of stories, and if I can act as a similar kind of reservoir, albeit a modest one, that would make me very happy.
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I didn't feel like I was in my own body my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.
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You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you’ve hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?
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In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.
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It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world.
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Passion can’t sustain itself forever.
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Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?
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Time flows in a strange way on Sundays.
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That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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