Haruki Murakami Quotes

What happens when people open their hearts?... They get better.

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• To be joining 'The Hunger Games' family is such a thrill. It deserves the hype because it's well written, handles really big subject matter, but doesn't talk down to its audience. And then there's the romance element.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Family
  • Down
  • Hunger

• My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Difficult

• the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Together
  • Black
  • Growing

• With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Hand

• Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Wonder

• I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.

  

  Lisa See
  • Night
  • Opportunity
  • Fight

• Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

  

  Anna Katharine Green
  • Capable
  • Adventures

• In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

  

  O. Henry
  • Men
  • City
  • Cities

• Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Men
  • Country
  • Experience

• Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • History
  • Responsibility
  • Opinions

• At age 76: A good life is like a good play -- it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.

  

  Ethel Barrymore
  • Play
  • Satisfying
  • Good Life

• Broadway is amazing because you're performing for such an intimate group of people. You're living in the moment and whatever happens happens, and you go on. You can't say cut and redo it, you have to be on the whole time.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • People
  • Time
  • Amazing

• One of the fundamental challenges of emancipation in South Africa is for the emancipated to avoid the conceptual trap of ascribing to the past of white racism centrality of explanation.

  

  Njabulo S Ndebele
  • Racism
  • Explanation
  • Emancipation

• What happens when people open their hearts?... They get better.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Happens
  • Hearts
  • Get Better