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Haruki Murakami Quotes
• A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
• A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will--over and over.
• According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people.
• Age certainly hasn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russians have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.
• As a writer, I felt it necessary to raise the alarm that a rampant, clandestine and unlawful trade in original manuscripts exists.
• As always, we sit on the narrow steps that lead from the Old Bridge down to the sandbar. A pale silver moon trembles on the face of the water. A wooden boat lashed to a post modulates the sound of the current. Sitting with her, I feel her warm against my arm.
• Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.
• Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment. Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.
• But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?
• But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.
• But no one was asking me. I was here to do a job, and gray steel lockers or pale peach jukebox was no business of mine.
• Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?
• Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?
• Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.
• Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
• For a whileis a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.
• For both of us, it had simply been too enormous an experience. We shared it by not talking about it. Does this make any sense?
• How can the mind be so imperfect?she says with a smile.
• I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying and silence are the two greatest sins of present day society. Actually, I lie a lot, and I'm always clamming up.
• I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.
• I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.
• I don't really know if it's the right thing to do, making new life. Kids grow up, generations take their place. What does it all come to? More hills bulldozed and more ocean fronts filled in? Faster cars and more cats run over? Who needs it?
• I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
• I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life.
• I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times.
Haruki Murakami Bibliography
Novels
| English | Japanese | ||
| Year | Title | Year | Title |
| 1987 | Hear the Wind Sing | 1979 | Kaze no uta o kike |
| 1985 | Pinball, 1973 | 1980 | 1973-nen no pinbōru |
| 1989 | A Wild Sheep Chase | 1982 | Hitsuji o meguru bōken |
| 1991 | Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World | 1985 | Sekai no owari to hādoboirudo wandārando |
| 2000 | Norwegian Wood | 1987 | Noruwei no mori |
| 1994 | Dance Dance Dance | 1988 | Dansu dansu dansu |
| 2000 | South of the Border, West of the Sun | 1992 | Kokkyō no minami, taiyō no nishi |
| 1997 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | 1992-1995 | Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru |
| 2001 | Sputnik Sweetheart | 1999 | Supūtoniku no koibito |
| 2005 | Kafka on the Shore | 2002 | Umibe no Kafuka |
| 2007 | After Dark | 2004 | Afutā Dāku |
Short Stories
| Year | Japanese Title | English Title |
| 1980 | Chūgoku-yuki no surou bōto | A Slow Boat to China |
| 1980 | Binbō na obasan no hanashi | A 'Poor Aunt' Story |
| 1981 | Nyū Yōku tankō no higeki | New York Mining Disaster |
| 1981 | Supagetī no toshi ni | The Year of Spaghetti |
| 1981 | Shigatsu no aru hareta asa ni 100-paasento no onna no ko ni deau koto ni tsuite | On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning |
| 1981 | Kaitsuburi | Dabchick |
| 1981 | Kangarū-biyori | A Perfect Day for Kangaroos |
| 1981 | Kangarū tsūshin | The Kangaroo Communique |
| 1982 | Gogo no saigo no shibafu | The Last Lawn of the Afternoon |
| 1983 | Kagami | The Mirror |
| 1983 | Tongari-yaki no seisui | The Rise and Fall of Sharpie Cakes |
| 1983 | Hotaru | Firefly |
| 1983 | Naya wo yaku | Barn Burning |
| 1984 | Yakyūjō | Crabs |
| 1984 | Ōto 1979 | Nausea 1979 |
| 1984 | Hantingu naifu | Hunting Knife |
| 1984 | Odoru kobito | The Dancing Dwarf |
| 1985 | Rēdāhōzen | Lederhosen |
| 1985 | Panya saishūgeki | The Second Bakery Attack |
| 1985 | Zō no shōmetsu | The Elephant Vanishes |
| 1985 | Famirī afea | A Family Affair |
| 1986 | Rōma-teikoku no hōkai・1881-nen no indian hōki・Hittorā no pōrando shinnyū・soshite kyōfū sekai | The Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, and the Realm of Raging Winds |
| 1986 | Nejimaki-dori to kayōbi no onnatachi | The Wind-up Bird And Tuesday's Women |
| 1989 | Nemuri | Sleep |
| 1989 | TV pīpuru no gyakushū | TV People |
| 1989 | Hikōki-arui wa kare wa ika ni shite shi wo yomu yō ni hitorigoto wo itta ka | Aeroplane: Or, How He Talked to Himself as if Reciting Poetry |
| 1989 | Warera no jidai no fōkuroa-kōdo shihonshugi zenshi | A Folklore for My Generation: A Prehistory of Late-Stage Capitalism |
| 1990 | Tonī Takitani | Tony Takitani |
| 1991 | Chinmoku | The Silence |
| 1991 | Midori-iro no kemono | The Little Green Monster |
| 1991 | Kōri otoko | The Ice Man |
| 1991 | Hito-kui neko | Man-Eating Cats |
| 1995 | Mekurayanagi to, nemuru onna | Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman |
| 1996 | Nanabanme no otoko | The Seventh Man |
| 1999 | UFO ga kushiro ni oriru | UFO in Kushiro |
| 1999 | Airon no aru fūkei | Landscape with Flatiron |
| 1999 | Kami no kodomotachi wa mina odoru | All God's Children Can Dance |
| 1999 | Tairando | Thailand |
| 1999 | Kaeru-kun, Tōkyō wo sukū | Super-Frog Saves Tokyo |
| 2000 | Hachimitsu pai | Honey Pie |
| 2002 | Bāsudei gāru | Birthday Girl |
| 2005 | Gūzen no tabibito | Chance Traveller |
| 2005 | Hanarei Bei | Hanalei Bay |
| 2005 | Doko de are sore ga mitsukarisō na basho de | Where I'm Likely to Find It |
| 2005 | Hibi idō suru jinzō no katachi wo shita ishi | The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day |
| 2005 | Shinagawa saru | A Shinagawa Monkey |
Other Work
2000 - Underground
2008 - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Writer
2010 - Norwegian Wood
2007 - All God's Children Can Dance
2004 - Tony Takitani
2003 - Dansa med dvärgar
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