That Murakami Quote
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You know the one. It’s quoted all the time: “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” Whenever I see this quoted, I see Haruki Murakami’s name underneath the quote. However, he never said it. A character in his book said it and...
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