“They both loved piano music and were convinced that Beethoven’s Sonata No. 32 was the absolute pinnacle in the history of music.… — 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
“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.” Sara looked directly into his eyes. “If nothing else,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“History cannot be erased or altered.Because that would mean killing yourself.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory. — 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
Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It feels like ancient history," said Naoko. But anyhow, sorry about last night. I don't know, I was a bundle of nerves.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.’ Sara looked directly into his eyes. ‘If… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of a part of themselves. It's a crime.” — 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
