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This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain, and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon. It - or they - are real moons.
—Haruki Murakami - 1Q84 (via murakamistuff)

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“The two of them on top of the freezing slide, wordlessly holding hands.

Once again they were a ten-year-old boy and girl.

A lonely boy, and a lonely girl. “

— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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murakamistuff:

1Q84

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You said you’re going far away. How far away are we talking about?”
“It’s a distance that can’t be measured.”
“Like the distance that separates one person’s heart from another’s.
—Haruki Murakami - 1Q84 (via murakamistuff)

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I decided to write the stories about Aomame and Tengo alternately, or like major and minor keys following the format of Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier.” But before doing so, I needed to come up with names [for the characters]. At some point I suddenly thought Aomame would be a good name. I hit upon the idea through association with an aomame tofu dish I saw on the menu of an izakaya restaurant. At the same time, the name Tengo sprung to mind. At that point, I knew the novel was almost done. During the two years I spent writing the work, my conviction that I would eventually complete it never wavered.
—Haruki Murakami on writing 1Q84 (via murakamistuff)
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“I’m not going to think of anything superfluous, Ushikawa decided. Be thick-skinned, have a hard shell around my heart, take one day, go by the book. I’m just a machine. A capable, patient, unfeeling machine. A machine that draws in new time through one end, then spits out old time from the other end. It exists in order to exist.”

Haruki Murakami - 1Q84

Ushikawa … “instrumentalized” by rrrenaldo

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1Q84

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murakamistuff:

Philip Gabriel’s notes on a page of the original Japanese version of 1Q84.

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murakamistuff:

1Q84

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murakamistuff:

Don’t let appearances fool you, 1Q84

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