Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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.
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My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
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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.
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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.
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Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.
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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.
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Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.
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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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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.
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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.
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I wanted to go hide. I wasn't looking to be more famous, I'm famous enough.
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I think everything happens in time. There's a time for everything. There's a time to be in a group, and there's a time to be solo.
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I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.
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I like that we don't have to come out the first 10 minutes and score, you know, with joke, joke, joke. We can open it in a more novel way and keep playing different pranks as we go through the thing.
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Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.
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What happens when people open their hearts?... They get better.
