Haruki Murakami Quotes

It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.

Haruki Murakami

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• If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

  

  Martin Mull
  • World
  • Real
  • Art

• Our history is a passion for me. I feel that we leave out so much information and huge gaps in the American story and it makes it hard for people to really understand that we are all intricately related as Americans. So I am attracted to historically based projects because we entertain and learn something at the same time. I just love that combination.

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• If you ever feel distant, never mistake who has drifted away. Prayer will close this gap.

  

  Tad R. Callister
  • Mistake
  • Prayer
  • Gaps

• Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.

  

  William Julius Wilson
  • Economic
  • Class
  • Middle

• At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Emotion
  • Certain
  • Week

• Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Nonsense
  • Follies
  • Divert

• Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Gaps
  • Pauses

• We live in a real world. Come back to it.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Comeback
  • Real World

• Gaps don't just happen. There is a generative element inside them, a welling motion as when cold waters shoulder up through warmer oceans. And where gaps choose to widen, coordinates warp, even in places constant since the oldest maps.

  

  Kay Ryan
  • Choose
  • Happen
  • Constant

• The real world doesn’t reward perfectionists. It rewards people who get things done.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Rewards
  • Real World
  • Perfectionists

• Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.

  

  Dara O Briain
  • Fairy
  • Tales
  • Appeals

• Doesn't it get on my nerves when people say science doesn't know everything. Science knows it doesn't know everything otherwise it would stop. Just becuase science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy-tale appeals to you.

  

  Dara O Briain
  • Fairytale
  • Nerves
  • Appeals

• Jamal's a house, ... I tried to tackle him in the Pro Bowl a couple times and he's not an easy guy to bring down. He's a big boy and he runs hard. We've got our work cut out for us. We've got to stay in our gaps and be sure tacklers.

  

  Brian Urlacher
  • House
  • Gaps
  • Pro Bowl

• There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • World
  • Literature
  • Poverty

• Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

  

  Elise M. Boulding
  • Ideology
  • Bridges
  • Gaps

• Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men.

  

  Steve Israel
  • Problem
  • Pay
  • Lifetime

• For me, it is about using everything that is there and using the gaps in the record, figuring out why the gaps might be there. And then when you move on to the level of what historians said, laying the interpretations side by side. You also have to look back at the documents and make your own judgments. What the record says and what people say about it. A novelist can fill the gaps in a way that a biographer cannot.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Looks
  • Judgment
  • Levels

• I'm always in a state of trance, I'm not very often in the real world.

  

  Emma Hewitt
  • State
  • Real World
  • Trance

• On the whole, and providing one is in good spirits and feeling reasonably bright, it is not hard to converse for a short space of time on subjects about which one knows little, and it is indeed often amusing to see how cunningly one can steer the conversational barque, hoisting and lowering her sails, tacking this way and that to avoid reefs, and finally racing feverishly for home with the outboard engine making a loud and cheerful noise.

  

  Virginia Graham
  • Home
  • Feelings
  • Spirit

• At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power.

  

  Catherine Bertini
  • World
  • Country
  • Valuable

• I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.

  

  John Green
  • Love
  • Earth
  • Pleasure

• We are not at all considering cancelling the Olympics.

  

  Toshiro Muto
  • Olympics
  • Considering
  • Cancelled

• It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Gaps
  • Real World
  • Inconsistencies