Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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Freedom is living without chains.
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I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.
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We treated all of the dead with dignity.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead.
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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
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When I was living in the projects, I had a mop stick for my horse. I wanted to be Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, so I would ride my mop through the projects.
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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
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I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.
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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
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Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
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Posh is a way of living that can often be quite miserly and not about money.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.
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I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.
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Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.
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The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.
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Attitudes toward gays have shifted much like they have for animals. People have a hard time relating to those who are different and often strike out against them in ignorance. But society is really starting to wise up at last as more enlightened generations emerge.
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The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.
