“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
“recognition that most of what is generally considered the truth is entirely relative. Subject and object are not as distinct as most… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To tell you the truth, sleepless nights are as unusual for me as sumo wrestlers who look good in berets.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, then a full… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Becoming serious was not the same thing as approaching truth, I sensed, however vaguely. But death was a fact, a serious fact,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“This all has got to be, patently, the most unbelievable, the most ridiculous story I have ever heard. Somehow coming from your… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Once you start lying to the public, you have to keep lying. It never ends. It’s not easy, either psychologically or practically,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One aim of my field is to relativize the images possessed by individuals, discover in these images the factors universal to all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To tell the truth, I don’t really understand the causes behind my runner’s blues. Or why now it’s beginning to fade. It’s… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It may well be that we can never fully adapt to our own deformities. Unable to find a place inside ourselves for… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Only by learning the truth—whatever that truth might be—could people be given the right kind of power.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The truth sometimes reminds me of a city buried in sand. As time passes, the sand piles up even thicker, and occasionally… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Everything was intertwined, with the complexity of a three-dimensional puzzle, a puzzle in which truth was not necessarily fact and fact not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had to… — haruki murakami Copy Share Image
There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“On the whole, I think of myself as one of those people who take a convenience-sake view of prevailing world conditions, events,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“his job was to bring that truth to light. It wouldn’t be easy. The place was under heavy guard, with professionals involved.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five… — 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
The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, & almost no one… — 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
