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My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.
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
Imagination
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Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.
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What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.
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While they're still alive, people can become ghosts.
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Probably. Again with the probablys. A world full of probablys, she said.
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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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If she did experience sex-or something close to it-in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.
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Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.
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No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.
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No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.
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Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
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Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert.
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Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always claim his heart. He could never quite get a grip on what it was. It just seemed that whatever lay waiting out there was all too vast, too overwhelming for him to possibly ever make a dent in.
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If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage
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Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.
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But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life? Word games, I dismissed. Every army needs a flag.
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As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.
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A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.
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A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.
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Ever since time began (when was that, I wonder?), it's been moving ever forward without a moment's rest. And one of the privileges given to those who've avoided dying young is the blessed right to grow old.
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Find me now. Before someone else does.
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