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These words may provide the best definition of originality available. “Fresh, energetic, and unmistakably your own.”
Haruki Murakami • Novelist as a Vocation: The master storyteller on writing and creativity
writing honestly about running and writing honestly about myself are nearly the same thing.
Haruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Tsundoku (積ん読) is a beautiful Japanese word describing the habit of acquiring books but letting them pile up without reading them
nesslabs.com • Building an Antilibrary: The Power of Unread Books
semaphore,
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
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Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
concept like the Japanese term kokoro is difficult. It means heart, spirit, mind, and self. It’s the inner and outer expression of who we are and what we’re capable of. Even if you don’t speak Japanese, the word is likely to resonate.
Seth Godin • The Song of Significance
my purpose for writing it before I die is to tell someone the fascinating life story of my hundred-and-four-year-old great-grandmother, who is a Zen Buddhist nun.
