{"author":"Haruki Murakami","author_id":"Haruki+Murakami","total_quotes":779,"quotes":[{"text":"But still,' Ayumi said, 'it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.'You may be right,' Aomame said, 'But it's too late to trade it in for another one.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["kindness","logic","wisdom","world"],"id":229,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"People's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["character","idea","self"],"id":708,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["emotional","hurt","independence","uniqueness"],"id":1133,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["dreams","reality"],"id":1618,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["futility","war"],"id":1829,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["dreaming","dreams"],"id":3150,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"(When asked “Was the model for Midori (a character in Norwegian Wood) modeled after your wife?”)I showed your message to my wife. She got mad and yelled: “What would make them think I was the model for Midori?!” She told me to fix the misunderstanding immediately, so that’s why I’m writing this reply now. Please stop causing problems in my household. Thank you.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["family","funny","haruki-muakami","midori","norwegian-wood","relationships","wife"],"id":3309,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["death","effort","fragile","life","regrets","sincerity"],"id":3436,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later I would recall it in such detail. I didn't give a damn about the scenery that day. I was thinking about myself. I was thinking about the beautiful girl walking next to me. I was thinking about the two of us together, and then about myself again. It was the age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love. Love with complications. The scenery was the last thing on my mind.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["love","memory"],"id":4077,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"What I'm trying to say is this. A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propogating itself by its own power in its own self-contained cycle. And once it passes a certain point, no one can stop it - even if the person himself wants to stop it.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["boredom","darkness","depression","loneliness","sadness"],"id":4147,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":779,"pages":78,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}