This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Now and then may not be enough…You have to enjoy it while you’re still young. enjoy it to the fullest. You can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm not going to get involved in a debate with you. Just remember this: the gods give, and the gods take away.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you — 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
