For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter. The same thing has nearly happened a few times already. It's just a physical phenomenon, no more. The spring… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“As Pushkin put it: He had no itch to dig for glories deep in the dirt that time has laid.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In parallel with their ceaseless consumption of time, people would ceaselessly reproduce time that they had mentally adjusted.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I run fast when I feel like it, but if I increase the pace I shorten the amount of time I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The old temporality is losing its effectiveness and moving into the background. Many people go on mumbling the old words, but in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.” Hoshino looked… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Tengo made a point of asking people how old they were at the time of their first memory.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Nah, I shook my head, things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that’s all. We fell silent again. The… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And most likely, that was the future in a nutshell, Sumire growing ever more distant. It made me sad. I felt like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One time, as the cold wind blew and she kept watch over the playground, Aomame realized she believed in God. It was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But that was the last time. That was…how should I say it? ... the one moment in my life when I was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“My husband and I see each other only on weekends, and generally get along well. We're like good friends, life partners able… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Cooking was not a chore for Tengo. He always used it as a time to think - about everyday problems, about math… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Mr. Kino, you're not the type who would willingly do something wrong. I know that very well. But there are times in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Cops, Hoshino concluded, not for the first time in his life, are just gangsters who get paid by the state.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I've thought a lot about you in that time. The more I've thought, the more I've come to feel that I was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“After the small woman had left, Ushikawa stared at the door for the longest time. She had shut the door behind her,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you can forget, but that tenth time, that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If sympathy was all it took to clean up shit, I'd have 50 times as much sympathy as anybody else” — 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
