Haruki Murakami Quotes
Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.
Quotes to Explore
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The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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There are trends in our societies... that can lead to some political decisions in America and in Europe that can give some ground to the radicalization discourse.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
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I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.
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I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.
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Letters are things, not pictures of things.
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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.
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You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.
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The Middle Ages were long preoccupied with the nature of the concept, or of the notion which the intellect abstracts from the object; but they never doubted that its content was borrowed from the content of the object, still less that the object really existed.
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They aren't common, but enormously interesting. How can it be that you've been together that long and you're still intensely in love with them?
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Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.
