It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness. Haruki Murakami More Quotes by Haruki Murakami More Quotes From Haruki Murakami I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words come out. Wrong or sometimes completely backward. I try to go back and correct it, but things get even more complicated and confused, so that I don’t even remember what I started to say in the first place. Like I was split into two or something, one half chasing the other. And there’s this big pillar in the middle and they go chasing each other around and around it. The other me always latches onto the right word and this me absolutely never catches up Haruki Murakami confused talking two Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell. Haruki Murakami heart giving years The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Haruki Murakami important bird wind I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world. Haruki Murakami judging jobs thinking Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods. Haruki Murakami mind rain earthquakes In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she wrote it down. "So what does that really mean? In simple terms." I think it over. It takes me a while to gather my thoughts, but she waits patiently. "I think it means," I say, "that chance encounters are what keep us going. In simple terms. Haruki Murakami compassion mean thinking My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life - I didn’t. I loved reading novels to distraction, but didn’t write well enough to be a novelist; being an editor or a critic was out, too, since my tastes ran to the extremes. Novels should be for pure personal enjoyment, I decided, not part of your work or study. That’s why I didn’t study literature Haruki Murakami lonely reading book let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers. Haruki Murakami cry littles wind That's good. I was worried. Of course, I do have a few things wrong with me, but those are strictly problems I keep inside. I'd hate to think they were obvious to anybody else. Especially at the swimming pool in the summer. Haruki Murakami swimming hate summer I wonder how it turns out that we all lead such different lives. Take you and your sister, for example. You're born to the same parents, you grow up in the same household, you're both girls. How do you end up with such wildly different personalities?...One puts on a bikini like little semaphore flags and lies by the pool looking sexy, and the other puts on her school bathing suit and swims her heart out like a dolphin. Haruki Murakami growing-up sexy girl The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs. Haruki Murakami smell wall flower It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous eyes of the dog gazing out the tiny window. In the infinite loneliness of space, what could the dog possibly be looking at? Haruki Murakami loneliness eye dog And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind. Haruki Murakami sleep long reality That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive. Haruki Murakami shadow-of-death dark thinking It's my motto for life. 'Walk slowly; drink lots of water. Haruki Murakami motto drink water I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?" Haruki Murakami next pages writing The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous. Haruki Murakami humorous want thinking I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me. Haruki Murakami novel seems writing I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them. Haruki Murakami novel reading forget It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people. Haruki Murakami small-numbers language people
