This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The images whittled away at him like a sharp knife, steady and unrelenting. There were times he thought it would have been… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I'm always hot. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We worked so hard, so hard, building our world one brick at a time. And when it fell apart, it happened just… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The total amount of time available is especially limited. The clock is ticking as we speak. Time rushes past. Opportunities are lost… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No matter how quiet and conformist a person’s life seems, there’s always a time in the past when they reached an impasse.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Unsure how to answer, I took another grape. Time was no problem for me, but I wasn't eager to hear the long… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Everyone just abandoned us there the whole time and walked on by. It was absolutely terrible. As” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Then I got undressed and, crawling under the covers, sat up in bed and sipped my drink. I felt like I was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You need to come face-to-face with the past, not as some naive, easily wounded boy, but as a grown-up, independent professional. Not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know, the usual story. Once upon a time I was playing my harp by a spring when a fairy appeared out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Gust have to go… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“They showed up all the time. They'd ring the bell or knock on the door, unconcerned that you might otherwise be occupied… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Listen, every object's in flux. The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith, justice, evil--they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have… — 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
