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Wanted Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
- The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.
- My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not…
- I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
- I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to…
- I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a…
- Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By…
- It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place…
- We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off…
- Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room…
- The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such…
- I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be…
- I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense…
- No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
- My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life…
- Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer…
- I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One…
- When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach. A place beyond the flow…
- I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I…
- But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it…
- The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.
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