“I shake my head, turn from the window, clear my mind of thoughts of a hundred years away.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That's the way it is with the mind. Nothing is ever equal. Like a river, as it flows, the course changes with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Do you really think you can read out my mind?" she asks me, face to face. "I think so," I say, wishing… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Samsa sat there for a long time with his eyes closed. Then, making up his mind, he stood, grabbed his black walking… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Turning all this over in my mind, I started to imagine another me somewhere, sitting in a bar, nursing a whiskey, without… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He placed this doubt inside a drawer in his mind labeled “Pending” and postponed any further consideration.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The voice of the light remains ever so faint; images quiet as ancient constellations float across the domw of my dawning mind.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In the midst of this overwhelming sunset, the image of Hatsumi flashed into my mind, and in that moment I understood what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I forget my name,” the cat said. “I had one, I know I did, but somewhere along the line I didn’t need… — 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
But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“These incurable men, with their twisted minds! They have no interest in rehabilitating themselves, and we can find no value in having… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In my case, if I start out by thinking about the plot, things don't go well. Small points, such as my impression… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Once you make up your mind to get rid of something, there’s very little you can’t discard. No – not very little.… — 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
