“A child should learn from early on what kind of activity supported his daily life, and he should appreciate the importance of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The ones who did it can always rationalize their actions and even forget what they did. They can turn away from things… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I looked up at the sky. A mother wants to make friends with her daughter. The daughter wants a mother more than… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I looked up at the sky. A mother wants to make friends with her daughter. The daughter wants a mother more than… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He had that feeling he remembered from childhood when he opened a new textbook at the beginning of the term, ignorant of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I don't know if I have the strength to care for Yukiko and the children, I thought. No more visions can help… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But this was the home I had chosen. I had a home, of course, when I was a child. But it was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight. This being that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Men who wield great violence at home against their wives and children are invariably people of weak character. They prey upon those… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was a cruel world though. More than half of all children died before they could reach maturity, thanks to chronic epidemics… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He liked doing research in the library. He liked feeling of accumulating knowledge in his brain. It was something he had enjoyed… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute...” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but at the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get out of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
