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It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.

It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.

Haruki Murakami
Years, Moments
Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

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Book, Library, Quiet
Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.

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Kind, Commit, Persons

let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers.

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Wind, Littles, Cry

In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.

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Beautiful, Promise, Dinner

That was the rule. Break one of my rules once, and I’m bound to break many more.

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Break, Bounds

There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.

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Mean, Fit, Stereotype
Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.131, Random House

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

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People, Dying, World
Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, p.590, Random House

His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body.

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Heart, Body, Restless

I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.

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Writing, Style, Enjoy

Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.

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It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

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Elements, Very Sad, Seems

Time moves in it special way in the middle of the night.

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Moving, Night, Special

Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.

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Responsibility, Life Is, Taking Responsibility
Haruki Murakami (2011). “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun”, p.71, Random House

I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.

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Reality, Leaving Me, Not Afraid

I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities.

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Guy, Looks, May

Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.

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Thinking, Pieces, Sometimes
Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.6, Random House

I think I'll stay alive here a bit longer, and see with my own eyes what's going to happen. I can still die after that - it won't be too late. Probably.

Haruki Murakami
Eye, Thinking, Too Late
Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84:”, p.29, Random House

Reaching the finish line, never walking, and enjoying the race. These three, in this order, are my goals.

Haruki Murakami
Race, Order, Goal
Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.131, Random House

Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience.

Haruki Murakami
Phones, Cells, Cell Phone

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

Haruki Murakami
Irony, Metaphor, Accepting
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.215, Random House

Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in writing.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Type, My Thoughts

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

Haruki Murakami
Country, Responsibility, Worry

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

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Years, Thinker

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Twelve, Lifetime
"'When I Run I Am in a Peaceful Place'". Interview with Maik Grossekathöfer, www.spiegel.de. February 20, 2008.

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