Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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Junk DNA - or, as scientists call it nowadays, noncoding DNA - remains a mystery: No one knows how much of it is essential for life.
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My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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I like black because it is a vacant space.
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Human reason is by nature architectonic.
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'What remains?' cried Ivanhoe; 'Glory, maiden, glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name.'
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But it was impossible to remain so long in the company of a female, even a divine one, without suffering some form of disillusionment.
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And a moment later there was a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and the relative had crossed the threshold at fifty m.p.h. under her own steam.
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Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!With baskets.
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Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
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Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.
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The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible.
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My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books a week. When we went on sailing trips, she'd bring a suitcaseful for the week. Even then, her office would have to send more.
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It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical.
