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It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.
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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
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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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I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.
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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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When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.
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