"I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the m...

It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it.
~ Haruki Murakami ~












It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says,...
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