Haruki Murakami Quotes
You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.
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When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.
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I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.
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Canada is a big part of my life.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.
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My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
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'Extract' was kind of a grown up 'Office Space' in the sense of talking about the ennui of being a successful person in America if you don't have some real passion in your life for something to care about.
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My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
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If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.
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I believe we create a lot of problems in our relationships if we don't feel safe to talk about our feelings at the speed of life.
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My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
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My father's relationship with Pac was something I was proud of.
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I never listened to country music growing up.
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I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.
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Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
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You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.
