Haruki Murakami Quotes
Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.
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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.
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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.
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Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
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When I do think, 'Man a fucking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars' worth of narcotics would do me right,' I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster's never seen me high. (Scar Tissue, 2004).
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No way that any astronaut worth his salt volunteered for the space program to become a hero. You don't select astronauts who want fame and fortune. You select them because they're the best test pilots in the world, they know it, and it's a personal challenge for them. And the astronauts of today are exactly the same.
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And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.
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People are not here to meet your expectations.
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There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.
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There's one thing I know for sure: When I'm most opinionated, my writing sucks.
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I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.
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Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.
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I'm not much of a crier but it is mildly soul-destroying and exposing to do something physical that you are terrible at in front of other people.
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Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul.
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I am somebody. I am a somebody. I am a child of God. I may not be educated but I am somebody. I may not have any money but I am somebody. I may not eat steak every day but I am somebody. I may not look the way you look but I am somebody.
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These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.
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Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?
