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I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.

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Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you

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The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. ”― Haruki Murakami, Norweg...more

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Of course, reading novels was just another form of escape. As soon as he closed their pages he had to come back to the real world. But at some point T...more

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When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions tha...more

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I'm alone inside the world of the story, my favorite feeling in the world.

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A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver with his license revoked. That would t...more

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Slowly like a movie fade out, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world.

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No, we weren't lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even more deeply than lovers do. The thought caused me a good deal of grief....more

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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

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I thought about Kizuki. "So you finally made Naoko yours," I heard myself telling him. Oh, well, she was yours to begin with. Now maybe, she's where s...more

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Everything seems pointless since you left

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I suddenly thought about my old girlfriend, the one I had first slept with in my third year of high school. Chills ran through me as I realized how ba...more

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He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's...more

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Because sometimes I have a need for human warmth, I answered honestly. Sometimes, if I can't feel something like the warmth of a woman's skin, I get ...more