I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say;… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She's always polite and kind, but her words lack the kind of curiosity and excitement you'd normally expect. Her true feelings- assuming… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Then she took my hand and touched it to the wound beside her eye. I caressed the half-inch scar. As I did… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I miss you terribly sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster. Just as you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm not going to get involved in a debate with you. Just remember this: the gods give, and the gods take away.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What do you mean, 'playing really creatively'? Can you give me an example?" "Hmm, let's see ... you send the music deep… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world. — 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
