How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It’s all an illusion. If… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was reborn," she said, her hot breath brushing his ear. "You were reborn," Tengo said. "Because I died once." "You died… — 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
Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The best thing would be to break your neck, but you'd probably just break your leg and then you couldn't do a… — 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
