December 2011
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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
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All these inexplicable events that have occurred in my life so far […]...
– Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Let’s call the world we actually have now Reality A and the world that we...
– Haruki Murakami
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Words can be practically useless at times, but as a writer they’re all I...
– Haruki Murakami - Underground
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That evening he didn’t take a single photo. Leaning against the wall, he...
– Haruki Murakami - 1Q84
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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...
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It’s good when food tastes good. It’s kind of like proof you’re alive.
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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
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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.
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Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often...
– Haruki Murakami - 1Q84
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Where there is light, there must be shadow, and where there is shadow there must...
– Haruki Murakami - 1Q84
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Anonymous asked: Can I ask for a link to see the film, "Norwegian Wood," online? Thank you very much. :)
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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)
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The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In...
– Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the shore
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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...
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I think of myself as a very normal person. At the same time, I’m a very...
– Haruki Murakami
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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
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I tried to tell her how I felt, but somehow the feelings and the right words...
– Haruki Murakami - Sputnik Sweetheart
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You could be anybody when you’re writing. That’s the reason that...
– Haruki Murakami
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After the small woman had left, Ushikawa stared at the door for the longest...
– Haruki Murakami - 1Q84
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Tengo suddenly recalled the fact that people lose fifty million skin cells every...
– Haruki Murakami - 1Q84
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Asking questions is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking’s...
– Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the shore (via nuevoprincipio)
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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,...
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When I start to write, I don’t have any plan at all. I just wait for the...
– Haruki Murakami
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