Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but …

Haruki Murakami
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Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up. ✨ FaceBook post byHaruki Murakami from Sep 25, 2015
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Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up. ✨ FaceBook post byHaruki Murakami from Sep 25, 2015

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