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It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.
Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
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Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
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The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.
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An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.
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It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night, the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. You can't fight it.
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Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.
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I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream - I was surprised to find it happening.
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His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body.
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What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back.
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