Ryu Murakami

“Who hasn't wanted to die at one time or another?”

— Ryū Murakami

“there's always something in miso soup”

— ryu murakami

“No forgiveness for lies.”

— Ryū Murakami

“The world's worst flavor combination was mango and menthol.”

— Ryu Murakami

“And just because I've written this book, don't think I've changed. I'm like I was back then, really.”

— Ryū Murakami

“And sometimes ignorance is even harder to deal with than deliberate evil.”

— Ryū Murakami

“Just before I fell asleep, I had a moment of panic ...”

— Ryu Murakami

“They don't realise that they've changed; they think it's the world that changed.”

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“It was the perfect time and place for an inherently timid person like him to express his inner pervert by peeing in…

— Ryū Murakami

“TV sounds are all the same; there's no difference between the sound of the wind in Northern Ireland and the wind on…

— Ryu Murakami

“American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born…

— Ryū Murakami

“What these young men feared and hated more than anything else was being spoken to by people they hadn't met, or having…

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“But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him, and there was no predicting what might…

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“We sat side by side on the swings. The creaking sound they made seemed sexier to me than a Jimi Hendrix guitar…

— Ryū Murakami

“Advertising departments, as you know, are crawling with people whose frontal lobes are so underdeveloped that if you flatter them a bit…

— Ryū Murakami

“Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody else's story, so we take turns playing reporter and celebrity.”

— Ryu Murakami

“But for all we’ve lost, hope is in fact one thing we Japanese have regained. The great earthquake and tsunami have robbed…

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“If everyone could feel as I felt at that moment, dressed in my preppy sweater and McGregor coat and about to set…

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“I wasn't sure I knew any longer what was right and what was wrong. It was a very precarious feeling, but it…

— Ryū Murakami

“Malevolence is born of negative feelings like loneliness and sadness and anger. It comes from an emptiness inside you that feels as…

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“Of course, I'm not sure there is such a thing as a real self. You could ransack your innards looking for the…

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“It was the face of a human being who’d been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but…

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“Yeah. He wants to be a…what do you call those guys?” “A sommelier?” “Right. Said he wanted to see your collection.” “At…

— Ryū Murakami

“Very few people of our generation or the next will reach adulthood without experiencing the sort of unhappiness you can't really deal…

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“But sometimes things happen that no one hopes for. Events that cause everything you've worked towards, the life you've carefully constructed piece…

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“Every time he studied this instrument, with its slender, gleaming steel rod that tapered down to such needle-like sharpness, he wondered why…

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“He wakes! The steel giant wakes! Long, long ago he rose from the sea, with the blood of life streaming from his…

— Ryū Murakami

“The young people nowadays – men and women, amateurs and pros – generally fall into one of two categories: either they don’t…

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“When I went on anyway, my body began to grow cold, and I thought I was dead. Face pale, my dead self…

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“These young men, in other words, represented a variety of types, but one thing they had in common was that they'd all…

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“But why is it that if you imagine a baby who smells of milk, for example, you can't help smiling? Why is…

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“People always talk about the health benefits of Japanese food,’ he said, ‘but I’m fascinated by other aspects of the Japanese dining…

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“She's like smoke:you think you're seeing her clearly enough,but when you reach for her there's nothing there”

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“I wonder why people you have to meet have to be such liars. They lie as if their lives depended on it.”

— Ryū Murakami

“Sinteen-years -old girls are probably the most sensitive and perceptive group of people in this entire country.”

— Ryū Murakami

“Memories are't like words; they're soft and gooey. Covered with a sticky slime, like a penis after sex, or your vagina when…

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“I remembered reading in a hard-boiled detective novel that if you drink in the same place two nights in a row, the…

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“What makes somebody nice or unpleasant to be around is the way they communicate. When people are fucked up, their communication is…

— Ryū Murakami

“When you're a kid, getting lost isn't just an event or a situation, it's like a career move. You get this thrill…

— Ryū Murakami

“You don't know what cold is until you've experienced the cold you feel when the blood is draining out of your body.”

— Ryū Murakami