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title: "3 Sayaka Murata Quotes"
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# Sayaka Murata

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Sayaka Murata is a Japanese writer. She is best known for the international bestseller Convenience Store Woman (2016) which has been translated into more than thirty languages worldwide. Murata has won many major literary prizes in Japan, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers in 2003, the Noma L

##  Quotes by Sayaka Murata

> [“I had the feeling I was being told they wanted to settle the matter this way because that was the easiest option…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sayaka-murata/i-had-the-feeling-i-was-being-told-they-wanted-to-settle-the-matter/)

Sayaka Murata

[Human nature](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/human-nature/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb6/sayaka-murata-78205_human-nature_i-had-the-feeling-i-was-being-told-they_691742.jpg)

> [“When you do physical labor, you end up being no longer useful when your physical condition deteriorates. However hard I work, however…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sayaka-murata/when-you-do-physical-labor-you-end-up-being-no-longer-useful-when/)

Sayaka Murata

[Labor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/labor/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ade/sayaka-murata-78205_physical-labor_when-you-do-physical-labor-you-end-up-be_2052602.jpg)

> [“Is there any such thing as a brain that hasn't been brainwashed? If anything, it's easier to go insane in the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sayaka-murata/is-there-any-such-thing-as-a-brain-that-hasn-t-been-brainwashed-if/)

Sayaka Murata

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7c/sayaka-murata-78205_brainwashed_is-there-any-such-thing-as-a-brain-that_2282956.jpg)

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