Haruki Murakami Quote from Vandermeer's Wonderbook

Art from my BOOK of THINGS, Quote from Wonderbook by Jeff Vandermeer

"It's not that I'm trying to introduce into the story surrealistic thingsand situations that I became aware of. I'm just trying to portray things that are real to my, myself, a little more realistically."
-Haruki Murakami (村上春樹)

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Top 10 Sci-fi Westerns Part 1

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