“A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It must be though on you not being able to read, but it's not the end of the world. You might not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“They had stolen my memories from me! Nobody had that right. Nobody! My memories belonged to me. Stealing memories was stealing time.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It took me an eternity to get through the toast, which tasted like lint and was gray from the sky. The sky… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Why must you have this map?" she asks. "Even with a map, you will never leave this Town." She brushes away the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I feel very strongly that all Japanese at that time had the idea drilled into them of 1999 being the end of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.”. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The surviving human beings there could do nothing but wait for the end to come. They chose different ways to live out… — 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
