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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When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
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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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Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
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So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it's the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn't interested in any of those kinds of things.
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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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You're going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn't necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, 'Could I have done things to prevent this situation?'
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Death has an opposite, but the opposite is not mere living. It is not courage or faith or human will. The opposite of death is love. How had I missed that? How does anyone miss that? Love is our only weapon. Only love can turn mere life into a miracle, and draw precious meaning from suffering and fear
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Drugs are marvelous--it's life that's evil. And sometimes the only way to face it is to get completely twisted.
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May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.
