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by Haruki Murakami
Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer

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Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.

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Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

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Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

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

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

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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.

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There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.

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Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

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Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.

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A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

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Haruki Murakami

 

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