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This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.

This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.

Haruki Murakami
Calm, Natural, Deserve

I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.

Haruki Murakami
Real, Reading, Night
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.61, Random House

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

Haruki Murakami
Running, Mean, Writing

Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.

Haruki Murakami
Memories, Crazy, Useless Stuff
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 27, 2015

I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what I’m writing. I don’t see anything else, I don’t think about anything else.

Haruki Murakami
Morning, Writing, Thinking
Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.77, Random House

Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

Haruki Murakami
Children, Smart, Heart
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 10, 2014

I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always dialling the wrong number. But I have come up with a few original cocktails that people seem to like.

Haruki Murakami
Simple, Wrong Number, Ideas
Haruki Murakami (2011). “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun”, p.83, Random House

Waves of thought are stirring. In a twilight corner of her consciousness, one tiny fragment and another tiny fragment call out wordlessly to eachother, their spreading ripples intermingling.

Haruki Murakami
Twilight, Tiny, Consciousness

Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my running. Running every day is a kind of lifeline for me, so I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished.

Haruki Murakami
Running, Two Of Me, Done

In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek out a kind of fairness. Of course, that might take time and effort. And maybe it won't seem to be worth all that. It's up to each individual to decide whether or not it is.

Haruki Murakami
Thinking, Effort, Might

In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.

Haruki Murakami
Spring, Years, Twenties
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Sputnik Sweetheart”, p.3, Random House

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.

Haruki Murakami
Humorous, Thinking, Want
Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them.

Haruki Murakami
Reading, Forget, Novel
Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

Haruki Murakami
Small Numbers, People, Language
Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Thinking, Novel
Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.

Haruki Murakami
Unique, Different, Stories
Source: www.bookbrowse.com

There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me.

Haruki Murakami
Dream, Reality, Pliers
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 25, 2014

Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.

Haruki Murakami
Character, Adults, Needs
Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

I couldn't tell wether the hole that opened up inside me was from missing you or from the change of season

Haruki Murakami
Missing, Holes, Seasons Change

I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?"

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Pages, Next
Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like.

Haruki Murakami
Writing, Imagination, Chamber Music
Source: www.bookbrowse.com

To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, despite twists and turns of underground cable. An all-too-perfect thing. Sometimes the lines get crossed. Or you get a wrong number. But that's nobody's fault. It'll always be like that, so long as we exist in this physical form. As a matter of principle.

Haruki Murakami
Love, Wrong Number, Ideas

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

Haruki Murakami
Jobs, Men, People

Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge pleasure of mine because it means that readers and I can make our narratives relative.

Haruki Murakami
Mean, Thinking, Narrative
Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.

Haruki Murakami
Ants, Died

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