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

Haruki Murakami

Norwegian Wood

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Topic

Thinking for oneself Thinking outside the box Books

Speaker

Nagasawa

Author

Haruki Murakami

Source

Norwegian Wood

Medium

Novel

Language

Japanese

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Japan Asia

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Citation

Murakami, Haruki. ノルウェイの森 [Norwegian Wood]. Kodansha, 1987.

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Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maples, singing songs, drinking water and diverting ourselves in just floating, floating; caring not a whit for the poverty staring us in the face, refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current: this is what we call ukiyo.

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Source
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Time
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