Haruki Murakami Quotes
This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.
Quotes to Explore
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.
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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
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Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem.
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People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.
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I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.
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We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.
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Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.
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We know that enlightened capital didn't get rid of the slave trade.
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I'm a patriarch now. I've got to go get the bread.
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As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.
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I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.
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The perfect shorts are always important.
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I don't have a tolerance for long meetings. I generally expect to get things over with quickly.
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I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.
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I love getting oxygen facials because I travel a lot. My skin gets pretty dry with all the airplanes.
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Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.
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What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever. I just gather material and find a scenario, and see where it takes me. I don't have a plan.
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I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.
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On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
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You think you have mastered it the wallpaper pattern, but just as you get well under way in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you.
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This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.
