I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Maybe the world was like a revolving door, it occurred to him as his consciousness was fading away. And which section you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Strong and independent? I'm neither one. I'm just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“As soon as I sat down across from her, she ordered me to put the entire contents of my pants pockets on… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of… — 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
