“I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.”

—  Haruki Murakami, book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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Japanese author, novelist 1949

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