Rooms Quotes by Haruki Murakami

11 Rooms quotes by Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami paints rooms with his surreal brush in eleven compact verses. Each line hints at hidden corridors of thought, making the familiar feel oddly mysterious.

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It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.

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Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have…

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The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights,…

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I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights.…

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A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second…

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I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of…

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I found a Bill Evans record in the bookcase and was listening to it while drying my hair when I realized that…

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Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean…

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Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where…

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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our…

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Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to…

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If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

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“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities”

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“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm…

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“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,…

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“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…

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“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…

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“Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out…

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“When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my own. It’s…

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