Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That’s all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don’t… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live… — 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
Everybody burns out in this world; amateur, pro, it doesn't matter, they all burn out, they all get hurt, the OK guys… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Tell me how you could say such a thing, she said, staring down at the ground beneath her feet. You're not telling… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You always look so cool, like no matter what happens, it’s got nothing to do with you, but you’re not really like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I found a Bill Evans record in the bookcase and was listening to it while drying my hair when I realized that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Only people who have been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think… — 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
