Haruki Murakami
Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer
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Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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.
1Q84
I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.
After the Quake
There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
You have to wait until tomorrow to find out what tomorrow will bring.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.
Dance Dance Dance
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
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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
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
Essays