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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'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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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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I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.
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There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.
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I'll be honest with you: politically, I have no issue with people, but my beef sometimes is with religion at the end of the day.
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All men who give up themselves in obedience unto God, they are received in Christ's obedience, viz. in the fulfilling of the obedience, the Jew and the Christian, and so likewise the heathen who has neither the law nor Gospel.
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I always think about the fact that PewDiePie, who has tens of millions of followers, started with zero. All of my favorite creators started with zero. And all it takes is one video to dive deep, and you are officially a YouTuber. So you've got to make that first video. It's not going to be your best, but you will learn as you go.
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Love's very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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The more positive you are when you think and work toward your goals, the faster you achieve them.
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The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.
