Haruki Murakami Quotes

A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

Haruki Murakami

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• I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Think
  • Authority
  • Brains

• The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

  

  Larry Elder
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Need
  • Size

• Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.

  

  Samantha Power
  • World
  • Together
  • Best

• The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Defeat
  • Useful
  • Soviet

• That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Why
  • Artist

• By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Man
  • Lie
  • Dignity

• The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Me
  • Economist

• I like musicals and I love music.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Music
  • Like
  • Musicals

• People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Reading
  • Beach

• But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Where
  • Sure
  • Inspection

• As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• Commercial hit films such as 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan,' 'Talaash,' and 'Kick' had big superstars to sell them; that may not have been the case if it were just me.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Me
  • Case
  • Commercial

• Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Different
  • Explore

• In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • War
  • Peace
  • Suffering

• Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• I am mentally strong.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Strong
  • Mentally

• Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • People
  • Good
  • Food

• I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Universe
  • Story
  • Over

• She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Friends
  • Spirit
  • Story

• Google never knew how successful key words would be.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Words
  • Successful
  • Key

• In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the sea is often fanned only by the land and sea breezes, and is like a smooth bed, on which these islands seem to sleep in bliss,--islands in which the spice and perfume gardens of the world are embowered, and where the bird of paradise has its home, and the golden pheasant, and a hundred others of brilliant plumage, whose flight is among thickets so luxuriant, and scenery so picturesque, that European strangers find there the fairy land of their youthful dreams.

  

  Frederick Marryat
  • World
  • Home
  • Dream

• A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Story
  • Requires
  • Baptism