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Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given day to weigh the good news versus the bad news, and you'll see what I mean.
Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
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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.
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For a while is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.
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People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.
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If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.
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Confidence as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read I loved to listen to music and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.
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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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I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don’t trust it, I have to investigate the source.
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All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that Marquez must have experienced everything in his novels.
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What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!
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I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.
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But knowing what I don’t want to do doesn’t help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don’t have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That’s my problem now. I can’t find the image.
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This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.
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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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I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky
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Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?
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