“if people lived forever - if they never got any older - if they could just go on living in this world,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“They use a training manual instead of sacred scriptures, with promotion and a high salary as their equivalent of enlightenment and paradise.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter what form she takes - a living spirit, an illusion - but you have to see her, have to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Or maybe that’s what it’s all about: this religion’s substance is its lack of substance. In McLuhanesque terms, the medium is the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“talent makes a huge spiritual leap possible. It’s an almost universal, independent phenomenon that transcends the individual.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“From a certain perspective, primitive religion always carries its own associated special aura that emanates from some psychic aberration. In” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In the name of God, they stole her time and her freedom, putting shackles on her heart. They preached about God's kindness,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Any religion that would prohibit life-saving surgery simply because it goes against the literal word of the Bible cane nothing other than… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The very thought of such people’s intolerant worldview, their inflated sense of self superiority, and their callous imposition of their own beliefs… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter what form she takes - a living spirit, an illusion - but you have to see her, have to… — 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
