A friend to kill time is a friend sublime. Haruki Murakami More Quotes by Haruki Murakami More Quotes From Haruki Murakami Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and so it gets put in the hands of us poor suckers on duty. You get my drift? Haruki Murakami your-siderightshands When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck. Haruki Murakami neckstoo-latethinking As I already explaned, I don't have any form. I'm a conceptual metaphysical object. Haruki Murakami metaphysicalobjectsform The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights, and as long as the weights were wound, the clock continued ticking away. But with people gone and the weights unattended, whole chunks of time were left to collect in deposits of faded life on the floor. Haruki Murakami houselongpeople The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right? Haruki Murakami would-bedullworld You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything. Haruki Murakami shoesfeetwriting I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be..... But that's the fun of writing a novel or a story, because I don't know what's going to happen next. Haruki Murakami storieswritingfun Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible. Haruki Murakami oppositesbelievethinking Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience. Haruki Murakami cell-phonephonescells [But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings. Haruki Murakami ironymetaphoraccepting A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person Haruki Murakami aomamestatespersons Everything has boundaries. the same holds true with thought. you shouldn't fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying them. that's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries. what's really important in life is always the things that are secondary. Haruki Murakami importantlife-iswant Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in writing. Haruki Murakami my-thoughtstypewriting You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you. Haruki Murakami agebirthdaysympathy I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people's support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon. Haruki Murakami runningbeautifulthinking Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most. Haruki Murakami valuesvalue-of-lifeappreciate If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language. Haruki Murakami languagekindwant I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our job is to give new meanings and special overtones to absolutely ordinary words.†I find the thought reassuring. It means that vast, unknown stretches still lie before us, fertile territories just waiting for us to cultivate them. Haruki Murakami writingjobslying Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there. Haruki Murakami dreamlifemoving So once you're dead there's just nothing? Mari: Basically... Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It's so much easier to just believe in reincarnation. Haruki Murakami bodybelievethinking
