Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Well, what else can they do? We all just keep doing the same things.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Some things can't be solved just by going wild every now and then.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Your life’s just begun and there’s a ton of things out in the world you’ve never laid eyes on. Things you never… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What's really important in life is always the things that are secondary. What's about all I can say.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If you listen carefully, you can hear these things. If you look carefully, you'll see what you're after” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Everything is blowing up around us, but there are still those who care about a broken lock, and others who are dutiful… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does.” — 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
