Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I want to love life.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
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The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
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I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.
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I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't – that to me is not life.
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I remember - when I was little, I remember playing 'Tecmo Bowl,' and I would be so excited to be Bo Jackson in the game that I wanted to watch him play in real life.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
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The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
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That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.
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The very first right of every animal is the right to live. As you cannot give life to a dead creature, you do not have the right to take life away from a living one.
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Andy Clark refers to humans as 'natural-born cyborgs.' What he means is that we habitually extend and change our body-concept without even thinking twice about it.
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I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.
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You can't develop a great car and sell it as an independent. You can develop a great car and make a deal with Mercedes.
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A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
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Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it's also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy.
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Everything in life is a metaphor.
