Haruki Murakami Quotes
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. This USO tour is especially meaningful because of the friends I have met and I am honored to be apart of it.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
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I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.
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Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
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Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.
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What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.
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No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.
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There's only one remedy for crime - get rid of the psychs! They are causing it!
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Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.
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If the Lord - who is the light of all things - vouchsafe to enlighten me, I will treat of Light; wherefore I will divide the present work into 3 Parts... Linear Perspective, The Perspective of Colour, The Perspective of Disappearance.
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I believe the last thing I read at night will likely manifest when I'm sleeping. You become what you think about the most.
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I have told you that emotions also possess an electrical reality. Thoughts formed and sent out within the impulse range of emotion often succeed because of the peculiar nature of emotional electrical impulses themselves. They have a particularly strong electrical mass.
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Once you land on who you think the character is and what his conflicts are, you have to let that lead you. You have to throw all that other stuff away and not be worried about this epic responsibility, or it will just crush and paralyze you.
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The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity.
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The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.
