Haruki Murakami Quotes
I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
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When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes.
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
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I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.
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If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.
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There's nothing harder than defining oneself.
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I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
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There are people we look up to, like Lady Gaga and what she's built. She's not afraid to own who she is.
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God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
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In this industry, the new owners prefer to kill anything they weren't responsible for.
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.
