Haruki Murakami Quotes

Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.

Haruki Murakami

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  Ira Glass
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• I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
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• I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

  

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• I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

  

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• I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

  

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• It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.

  

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• Pop music will never be low brow.

  

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• It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Great
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• Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

  Ford Frick
  • Work
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• I remember a few years ago I was watching this astronaut from the space shuttle, talking about his experiences in space and talking about what earth looked like to him from above.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Remember
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• Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Good
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• I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • American
  • Interesting
  • Chinese

• I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them.

  

  David Morse
  • Done

• Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.

  

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• I'm not an Iran expert.

  

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• I could never sit down and write jokes.

  

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• Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

  

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• Leave this world a little better than you found it.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
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• Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it's worth it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Pain
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• Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

  

  H. R. Giger
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• Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.

  

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• Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Pain
  • Religion
  • Stories