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The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake.
Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
Athletics Competitor
Essayist
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Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
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University Teacher
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Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
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I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.
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I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.
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Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind.
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The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.
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Artists are those who can evade the verbose.
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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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I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.
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I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.
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Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)
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Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make such huge profits. I hate to say it, but they're like drug dealers.
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I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.
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That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.
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Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course.
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Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.
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Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things.
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Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match.
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I move, therefore I am.
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Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
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I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.
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It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down.
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