Haruki Murakami Quotes
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If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.
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You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.
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We live in a real world. Come back to it.
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The real world doesn’t reward perfectionists. It rewards people who get things done.
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As a writer, I believe in going where the evidence takes me rather than coming in with a preconceived notion and forcing the evidence to fit that belief.
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I'm always in a state of trance, I'm not very often in the real world.
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I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.
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This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.
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Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.
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It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.
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India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.
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The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole.
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I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It's a quick study.
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Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.
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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
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There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
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We are not at all considering cancelling the Olympics.