Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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Planned Parenthood is not the front door of women's health. Not here in the 6th District, not in the state of Georgia, and not around the country.
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Why does my brain insist on counting the steps every time I walk up a flight of stairs? I just can't help myself. There's something about my mind that always wants to keep counting.
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All I want to do is change the world.
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In the Dominican Republic, my mom and I lived in this little tiny town called Cabarete, which is very poor.
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Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.
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I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation.
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A man hunted only for food or clothing or in self-defense. It was another mark of the effete and the sadistic to take life as a sport.
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Less hate and greedIs what we needAnd more of service true;More men to loveThe flag aboveAnd keep it first in view.Less boast and bragAbout the flag,More faith in what it means;More heads erect,More self-respect,Less talk of war machines.
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I have often been asked how I came to write. The best answer is that I needed the money. When I started I was 35 and had failed in every enterprise I had ever attempted.
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Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
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I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall'.
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If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment, we shall create a commmunity listened to around the world.
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Trejo is one of the oldest boxing gyms in Cuba; it's outdoor, and every great champion the country has produced has passed through and was forged in the open air.
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In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.
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I like to think I grow as a writer from every new experience.
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Some nights, a romantic dinner can be killed by having to do dishes afterward, so it probably suits you better to go out for dinner. But I love cooking and always have.
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Mayonnaise, n. One of the sauces that serve the French in place of a state religion.
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I spent about a year traveling overland from Egypt through Sudan and Ethiopia, and eventually into East Africa.
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I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.
