Haruki Murakami Quotes
Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.
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I think men look best when they're dressed in something that makes them feel comfortable.
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The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
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I can't not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.
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Thank God for both our grandmothers, the Hollands' grandmother was very seminal, and mine was the head of the choir at my church, ... I had to be at church on Thursday, Saturday and Sundays rehearsing. I couldn't do anything else until I got that business taken care of.
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We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.
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It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.
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The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.
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If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there is any moral precept shared by people of all beliefs, it is that we owe ourselves and future generations a beautiful, rich, and healthful environment.
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People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.
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When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.
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Should the color of some other person's eyes have anything to do with how you treat them?
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If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet.
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Ministers must not be able to set rules governing solicitors on a whim, to suit their own requirements.
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We thought it was a fairly obvious out. I don't know why he did it or why people do, it's up to them really. But it was a nice gesture, I suppose.
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Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.
