I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
[...] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You're walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Let me just tell you this, Watanabe," said Midori, pressing her cheek against my neck. "I'm a real, live girl, with real,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not intended to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Do you know what ‘Sputnik’ means in Russian? ‘Travelling companion’. I looked it up in a dictionary not long ago. Kind of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I wonder how it turns out that we all lead such different lives. Take you and your sister, for example. You're born… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel so- I don’t know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everybody burns out in this world; amateur, pro, it doesn't matter, they all burn out, they all get hurt, the OK guys… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The best thing would be to break your neck, but you'd probably just break your leg and then you couldn't do a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where… — 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
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