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You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.
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If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit.
Haruki Murakami
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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
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I was reborn," she said, her hot breath brushing his ear. "You were reborn," Tengo said. "Because I died once." "You died once," Tengo repeated. "On a night when there was a cold rain falling," she said. "Why did you die?" "So I would be reborn like this." "You would be reborn," Tengo said. "More or less," she whispered quietly. "In all sorts of forms.
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The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.
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So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.
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Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.
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Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to be this ugly?
Haruki Murakami
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My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.
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But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.
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When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.
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Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?
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Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like.
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People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is concerned.
Haruki Murakami
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If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.
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You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.
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Find me now. Before someone else does.
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I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize.
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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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If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.
Haruki Murakami
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You're not a kid any more. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right.
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That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.
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It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.
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The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves.
Haruki Murakami