May 2013
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“Have you ever had that feeling - that you’d like to go to a whole different...”
– The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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“It feels good to think about you when I’m warm in bed. I feel as if you’re...”
– Norwegian Wood (via hellanne)
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“I don’t know how to put it, but I just can’t get it through my head that the...”
– Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (via jaheira)
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“Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion.”
– The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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“You can’t tell anything from photographs. They’re just a shadow. The real me is...”
– South of the Border, West of the Sun
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“Sometimes I feel as if I’m racing with my own shadow. But that’s one thing I’ll...”
– After Dark
Murakami: Storytelling of Russian masters a great... →
KYOTO—Haruki Murakami reiterated his love for Russian masterpieces and 19th-century literature as an influence on his work during a rare public speech and interview on May 6 at Kyoto University.
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“The world goes on without me.”
– A Wild Sheep Chase
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“As long as there’s such a thing as time, everybody’s damaged in the end, changed...”
– Kafka on the Shore (via sunshinedeathray)
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“She’d become so beautiful, it defied understanding. Never had I feasted my eyes...”
– Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (45)
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“The more I think about it, the more I’d like to take a rain check on the topic...”
– Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami (via heyyojkao)
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“It was the usual noontime university scene, but as I sat watching it with...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via klang-art-coeur)
April 2013
9 posts
thecaffeinated asked: The wind up bird was very disturbing indeed but the best parts of the book had to be where Toru Okada discovers more about who he is in that deep well.
gastong asked: The last book I read was the wind up bird chronicle... Can I just get some frame of reference from someone else who has (probably) read it!? That was a really strange and disturbing story. I loved Cinnamon though!
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“Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.”
– Kafka on the Shore
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“Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to...”
– What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (via dreamsthatglitter)
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“What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important...”
– Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood (via stuckinskeptikoi)
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“It’s because of you when I’m in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via malgre)
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“The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from...”
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via shebunny)
March 2013
9 posts
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“Whenever I got involved in something, I shut out everything else.”
– Norwegian Wood (via tonglexi)
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“A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless...”
– Kafka on the Shore (via tannastardust)
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“We needed that much time,” Tengo said, “to understand how lonely we really were.”
– 1Q84, Haruki Murakami (via annabs)
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“Only the dead stay seventeen forever.”
– (via itsbedder)
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“Don’t you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and...”
– Norwegian Wood
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“I never once thought about how I was going to die,” she tells Miyake. “I can’t...”
– Landscape with Flatiron (After the Quake)
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“Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters,...”
– Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance (via the-story-tellr)
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“Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It’s just a matter of...”
– Haruki Murakami - Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (via syuzeir)
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“Things never work out like you think they will, but that’s what makes life...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via lifeandeye)
February 2013
27 posts
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“If you never noticed, it never happened.”
– 1Q84
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“I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night,...”
– 1Q84
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“I probably still haven’t adapted to the world.”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via intoazure)
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“How many Sundays - how many hundreds of Sundays like this - lay ahead of me?”
– Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood (via firstactproblems)
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“People’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.”
– After Dark
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Boyhood cities abound with Haruki Murakami... →
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“Most people led minimal lives in worlds that had nothing to do with richness of...”
– 1Q84
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“My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong...”
– Sleep (The Elephant Vanishes)
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“If everybody went around understanding each other without asking questions or...”
– Pinball, 1973
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“But what can you do? Wonderful things always come to an end.”
– Sputnik Sweetheart
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“Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it’s utterly precious.”
– Kafka on the Shore
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New Murakami Novel in April
A new novel will come out in April.
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“The Earth, after all, doesn’t creak and groan its way around the sun
just so...”
– Sputnik Sweetheart
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“Two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their...”
– Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World 