Haruki Murakami Quotes
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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My personal life is also cinema.
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.
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The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
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We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
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If children have interests then education happens.
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In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it for a long time.
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I had begun my professional career when I was 9 years old at the Cleveland Play House, and it was a very specific, real theater sort of like, you know, in England and the Berliner Ensemble - very devoted people. And I thought the theater was the greatest place I had ever been, and that's what I wanted to do.
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I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
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It's only when you're privy to the conversations and a member of the production team that you can direct the course of a series and make sure it flourishes.
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There are very few people I would trust to look after my children.
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I want the people to be able to see me and be able to see a great performance.
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Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.
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When people love you for your cultural contributions, geographical boundaries become nonexistent.
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I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.
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People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
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Last year they came in and won the game; that's how I would define it. Revenge is never on our mind. What's on our mind is playing defense, rebounding, taking care of the ball, and running our transition game.
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When a player keeps a calm demeanor on the court, it's easier for his ability to shine. The best response to an opposing player's physical or psychological tactics is to keep cool and come right back at him with the force of your game, not your fists. Revenge is always sweeter if your team wins the game.
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I decided, enough pain. To the lips of their nocturnal happiness I would attach those of my revenge. I was not the woman who breaks into pieces under the blows of abandonment and absence, who goes mad, who dies. Only a few fragments had splintered off, for the rest I was well. I was whole, whole I would remain. To those who hurt me, I react giving back in kind. I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.
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I have been a member of the Microsoft-bashing society for quite some time.
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Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.
