“I study the chessboard and concede defeat. "You can gain yourself in five moves" says the Colonel. "Worth fighting to the end.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Of course it’s important to know what’s right and what’s wrong. Individual errors in judgment can usually be corrected. As long as… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Failure to reach that bar is not something you can easily explain away. When it comes to other people, you can always… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You close your eyes, and all that comes to mind are the mistakes of the past.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Stop agreeing with everything I say! It's not as if you're going to solve everything by admitting your mistakes. Whether or not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If something is important enough, a little mistake isn't going to ruin it all, or make it vanish. It [just] might not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I must be in love with this woman, Sumire realized with a start. No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There are three reasons I failed. Not enough training. Not enough training. And not enough training.” — 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
