The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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
It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Dance," said the Sheep Man. "Yougottadance. Aslongasthemusicplays. Yougotta dance. Don'teventhinkwhy. Starttothink, yourfeetstop. Yourfeetstop, wegetstuck. Wegetstuck, you'restuck. Sodon'tpayanymind, nomatterhowdumb. Yougottakeepthestep. Yougottalimberup. Yougottaloosenwhatyoubolteddown. Yougottauseallyougot.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But there was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was… — 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
Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
At any rate, that’s how I started running. Thirty three—that’s how old I was then. Still young enough, though no longer a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities,… — 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
A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding… — 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
