Haruki Murakami Quote #1
(When asked “Was the model for Midori (a character in Norwegian Wood) modeled after your wife?”)
I showed your message to my wife. She got mad and yelled: “What would make them think I was the model for Midori?!” She told me to fix the misunderstanding immediately, so that’s why I’m writing this reply now. Please stop causing problems in my household. Thank you.Haruki Murakami Quote #2
...All without any more sound than flipping over a playing card. And sitting in this limo, compared to my fifteen-year-old Volkswagen Beetle I'd bought off a friend, was as quiet as sitting at the bottom of a lake wearing earplugs.
Haruki Murakami Quote #3
...and we go on living and breathing it into our lungs like fine dust.
Until that time, I had understood death as something entirely separate from and independent of life. The hand of death is bound to take us, I had felt, but until the day it reaches out for us, it leaves us alone. This had seemed to me the simple, logical truth. Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.Haruki Murakami Quote #4
...he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. That's the only kind of book I can trust, he said.
It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature, he added, but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short.Haruki Murakami Quote #5
...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.
Haruki Murakami Quote #6
...no matter how advanced the system, no matter how precise, unless we have the will to communicate, there's no connection. And even supposing the will is there, there are times like now when we don't know the other party's number. Or even if we know the number, we misdial.
Haruki Murakami Quote #7
...somewhere, on some subterranean level, her darkness and his may have connected.
Haruki Murakami Quote #8
...the majority of people in the world have no problem following orders. They're actually happy to be told what to do. They might complain, but that's not how they really feel. They just grumble out of habit. If you told them to think for themselves, and make their own decisions and take responsibility for them, they'd be clueless.
Haruki Murakami Quote #9
...you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.
Haruki Murakami Quote #10
A cell is just a room if you don't lock the door.
Haruki Murakami Quote #11
A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it.
Haruki Murakami Quote #12
A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver with his license revoked. That would throw anybody for a loop, don't you think? But Beethoven didn't let it get to him. Sure, he must have been a little depressed at first, but he didn't let misfortune get him down. It was like, Problem? What problem? He composed more than ever and came up with better music than anything he'd ever written. I really admire the guy. Like this Archduke Trio--he was nearly deaf when he wrote it, can you believe it? What I'm trying to say is, it must be tough on you not being able to read, but it's not the end of the world. You might not be able to read, but there are things only you can do. That's what you gotta focus on--your strengths. Like being able to talk with the stone.
Haruki Murakami Quote #13
A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.
Haruki Murakami Quote #14
A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.
Haruki Murakami Quote #15
A giant octopus living way down deep at the bottom of the ocean. It has this tremendously powerful life force, a bunch of long, undulating legs, and it's heading somewhere, moving through the darkness of the ocean… It takes on all kinds of different shapes—sometimes it's 'the nation,' and sometimes it's 'the law,' and sometimes it takes on shapes that are more difficult and dangerous than that. You can try cutting off its legs, but they just keep growing back. Nobody can kill it. It's too strong, and it lives too far down in the ocean. Nobody knows where its heart is. What I felt then was a deep terror. And a kind of hopelessness, a feeling that I could never run away from this thing, no matter how far I went. And this creature, this thing doesn't give a damn that I'm me or you're you. In its presence, all human beings lose their names and their faces. We all turn into signs, into numbers.
Haruki Murakami Quote #16
A legfontosabb, amit az iskolában megtanulunk, az az, hogy a legfontosabb dolgokat nem lehet az iskolában megtanulni. (50. old.)
Haruki Murakami Quote #17
A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much.
Haruki Murakami Quote #18
A month can do that, too, can't it, just fly past before you know it. And, for the life of me, I can't recall a dingle thing I did during that whole time. It feels like I did a whole lot, and it feels like I did nothing at all. Indeed, I had no idea a month had gone by until someone came on the last day to collect the newspaper money.
Haruki Murakami Quote #19
A morte existe não como contrário da vida mas como parte dela
Haruki Murakami Quote #20
A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.
Haruki Murakami Quote #21
A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.
Haruki Murakami Quote #22
A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born, but you can choose how to die.
Haruki Murakami Quote #23
A person's last moments are an important thing. Yuou can't choose how you're born, but you can choose how you die.
Haruki Murakami Quote #24
A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.
Haruki Murakami Quote #25
A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all right. you’ve made it past Dead Man’s Curve and you’re out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.
Haruki Murakami Quote #26
A question wells up inside me, a question so big it blocks my throat and makes it hard to breathe. Somehow I swallow it back, finally choosing another.
Are memories such an important thing?
It depends, she replies, and closes her eyes. In some cases, they're the most important thing there is.Haruki Murakami Quote #27
A rubber plant is just about the ideal family.
Haruki Murakami Quote #28
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to write!' Impelled by that voice, I would find myself writing a novel. In this sense, too, my short stories and novels connect inside me in a very natural, organic way.
Haruki Murakami Quote #29
A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will--over and over.
Haruki Murakami Quote #30
A su lado, lado tenía la sensación de que finalmente la vida volvía a pertenecerme
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