December 2011
120 posts
catdelivery asked: Dear Murakamistuff, I wish your coming year will be continue doing great. I love all the murakami posts and it filled my life with all murakami magic. Thanks and wish you a happy new year
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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“All these inexplicable events that have occurred in my life so far […]...”
– Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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“Let’s call the world we actually have now Reality A and the world that we...”
– Haruki Murakami
Dec 30th
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“Words can be practically useless at times, but as a writer they’re all I...”
– Haruki Murakami - Underground
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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“That evening he didn’t take a single photo. Leaning against the wall, he...”
– Haruki Murakami - 1Q84 (via seananigans)
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Reminder: Senrinomichi and Murakami's speech
Nine months have passed since a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the northeastern Tōhoku region of Japan. The people struck by this disaster still need our help which is why I want to bring the Senrinomichi project back to your attention. The main goal of Kevin and his team is to give as many people as possible access to the speech Haruki Murakami made upon receiving the Catalunya...
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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“It’s good when food tastes good. It’s kind of like proof you’re alive.”
–  Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (via mylittlebookofwisdom)
Dec 28th
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Haruki Murakami writes commercial for Sapporo... →
The commercial, which is under the theme of running (“to encourage those affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami”), is expected to be aired from the 2nd of January (in Japan, of course). According to Sapporo, Murakami will donate his writing fee to disaster-hit areas.
Dec 28th
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“Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often...”
– Haruki Murakami - 1Q84 (via durianseeds)
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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“Where there is light, there must be shadow, and where there is shadow there must...”
– Haruki Murakami - 1Q84
Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Anonymous asked: Can I ask for a link to see the film, "Norwegian Wood," online? Thank you very much. :)
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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“Kafka, in everbody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases,...”
– Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the shore (via nuevoprincipio)
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In...”
– Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the shore (via nuevoprincipio)
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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New: Murakami Places
Murakami cats - we have a little Christmas gift for you! In our efforts to keep this little blog fresh and interesting for you guys we’ve come up with this new little project called Murakami Places. The main idea is to collect all the important locations in Haruki Murakami’s stories and put them into several maps (one map for each novel) to have a nice and clear overview of important...
Dec 24th
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“I think of myself as a very normal person. At the same time, I’m a very...”
– Haruki Murakami
Dec 23rd
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“The clock read half past nine when she got out of bed, picked up her clothes...”
– Haruki Murakami - Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (via jacobmooty)
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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“I tried to tell her how I felt, but somehow the feelings and the right words...”
– Haruki Murakami - Sputnik Sweetheart (via jisatsusakuru)
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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“You could be anybody when you’re writing. That’s the reason that...”
– Haruki Murakami
Dec 21st
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“After the small woman had left, Ushikawa stared at the door for the longest...”
– Haruki Murakami - 1Q84
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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“Tengo suddenly recalled the fact that people lose fifty million skin cells every...”
– Haruki Murakami - 1Q84
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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“Asking questions is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking’s...”
– Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the shore (via nuevoprincipio)
Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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On submissions
We’ve been having a little trouble with submitted pictures lately. Some of them just won’t open - this problem has existed for a little while now and should probably explain the lack of submitted postings in the past few weeks. We’re really sorry about that. It looks like we’re not the only blog that’s having issues with the submission function. In the meantime,...
Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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“When I start to write, I don’t have any plan at all. I just wait for the...”
– Haruki Murakami
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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