Haruki Murakami’s novel ‘Norwegian Wood’ finds respect in the hands of director Tran Anh Hung (via NY Daily News)
"Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe."
— Haruki Murakami
(Source: barney-barrett, via educrate)
"I can’t really say, but something’s happening. The air pressure, the way sound reverberates, the reflection of light, how bodies move and time passes – it’s all transforming, bit by bit. It’s like each small change is a drop that’s steadily building up into a stream."
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via twomonocles)
"Like me,” I said.
“No, You’re different. I can tell there’s something special about you. The emotional shell around you is so hard everything inside has got to be still intact.”
“Emotional shell?”
“That’s right,” she said."
“No, You’re different. I can tell there’s something special about you. The emotional shell around you is so hard everything inside has got to be still intact.”
“Emotional shell?”
“That’s right,” she said."
— Haruki Murakami (via prettygeek)
"Here’s what I think, Mr. Wind-Up Bird,” said May Kasahara. “Everybody’s born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shakes me up. What I’d really like to do is find a way to communicate that feeling to another person. But I can’t seem to do it. They just don’t get it. Of course, the problem could be that I’m not explaining it very well, but I think it’s because they’re not listening very well. They pretend to be listening, but they’re not, really. So I get worked up sometimes, and I do some crazy things."
— Haruki Murakami, “The Wind-up Bird Chronicle”
