Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“All of a sudden out of nowhere I can bring back things I haven't thought about for years. It's pretty interesting. Memory… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty five days… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough." "Waiting for the perfect love?" "No, even… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Well, Mr Katagiri, I have not been frogging all these years for nothing. I keep my eye on the important things in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it's a form of mesmerism. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The total amount of time available is especially limited. The clock is ticking as we speak. Time rushes past. Opportunities are lost… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Women are all born with a special, independent organ that allows them to lie. This was Dr. Tokai's personal opinion. It depends… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It’s true I’ve got a cold streak. I recognize that. But if they—my father and mother—had loved me a little more, I… — 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
