Haruki Murakami

Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer

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It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

1Q84
I sometimes think that people�s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what�s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

A Wild Sheep Chase
It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.

After the Quake
It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously."

1Q84
Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently.

Dance Dance Dance
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.

The Elephant Vanishes
What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

After the Quake
No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.

South of the Border, West of the Sun
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays