Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Christianity is a battle not a dream.
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Developing nations want to become developed nations.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.
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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
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Whether or not Saddam is implicated directly in the anthrax attacks or the horrors of September 11, he is, by any common definition, a terrorist who must be removed.
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The American spirit is stronger than stone and mortar, tougher than steel and glass, and more enduring than any pain or suffering that can be inflicted on our national conscience.
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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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We can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.
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If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.
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Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.
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The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.
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I'm going to get drunk and insult as many musicians from the 80's as is humanly possible.
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One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible.
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The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities.
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The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.
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A man cannot own a woman, cousin. He can only... He can only love her.
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You're not getting the joy out of literature that it gave you. This is the danger of what we do. Look at Hemingway and so many others. You devote your life to one thing, that is what you are. It's artificial but it's all you have. If you lose it, then you're nothing and there's no point in going on.
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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I post pictures that I want to post and say what I want to say. If that's three times a day or three times per month then whatever.
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What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.
