He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, just the barest traces of what had once been a life. His body was like a dilapidated old house from which all furniture and fixtures have been removed and which awaited now only its final demolition. Haruki Murakami
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  2. A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. - Anonymous

  3. No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake.... - Alexander Trocchi

  4. Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon. - Joseph Bruchac

  5. A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping. - Jennifer Donnelly

More Quotes By Haruki Murakami
  1. He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

  2. What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

  3. I used to think the world was broken down by tribes, ' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who...

  4. Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

  5. It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

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