“Had I done the right thing by not telling her? Maybe not. Who on earth wanted the right thing anyway? Yet what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A bunch of different people appear, and they’ve got their own situations and reasons and excuses, and each one is pursuing his… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What marks his plays is the way things get so mixed up the characters are trapped. Do you see what I mean?… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Each person feels the pain in his own way, each has his own scars. So I think I’m as concerned about fairness… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek a kind of fairness.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Only people who have been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil - they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Listen, every object's in flux. The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith, justice, evil--they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay… — 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
