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 thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him. And he's still very present on TV because he's commenting for Formula One.
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Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.
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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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“Be not grieved above the measure for thy deceased loved ones. They are not dead, but have only finished the journey which it is necessary for every one of us to take. We ourselves must go to that great place of reception in which they are all of them assembled, and in this general rendezvous of mankind, live together in another state of being.”
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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
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Joe was being called a liar and a traitor; I'm being accused of nepotism, of being a glorified secretary. The stresses that that places on an individual and, of course, a marriage were tremendous. It was - there were some dark days.
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Visiting someone in a hospital recently, I watched an elderly couple. The man was in a wheelchair, the wife sitting next to him in the visitors' room. For the half-hour that I watched they never exchanged a word, just held hands and looked at each other, and once or twice the man patted his wife's face. The feeling of love was so thick in that room that I felt I was sharing in their communion and was shaken all day by their pain, their love, something sad and also joyful: the fullness of a human relationship.
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The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.
