# Quote — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

> Money had no name of course. And if it did have a name, it would no longer be money. What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.

- Author: [Haruki Murakami](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami.md)
- Book: [The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle.md)
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> Grammar is like the air: someone higher up might try to set rules for its use, but people won't necessarily follow them.

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> He inherited from his mother's stories the fundamental style he used, unaltered, in his own stories: namely, the assumption that fact may not be truth, and truth may not be factual.

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