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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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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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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There's nothing harder than defining oneself.
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I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.
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Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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But two are walking apart forever And wave their hands for a mute farewell.
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Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.
