Haruki Murakami Quotes
How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.
Quotes to Explore
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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I don't care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me.
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Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator.
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I've spent my life making blunders.
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Humans are not machines-we are something more. We have feeling and experience. Material comforts are not sufficient to satisfy us. We need something deeper-human affection.
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This is going to be a long process. It is going to be a process with tensions and complications that will make everybody sometimes have to make painful sacrifices and painful engagements and commitments.
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The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.
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During any performance, I love to connect with the crowd and hope fans leave my show feeling happy.
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You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!
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Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago.
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One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
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I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine... and curry... and cheeses.
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Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One must eat muffins quite calmly, it is the only way to eat them.
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I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
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As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.
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There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.
