Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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Stay calm and aggressive.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.
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I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.
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That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
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I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
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Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
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I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.
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Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.
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«Some aspects of the Spanish economy are going well, ... but it is not because you govern ... What has been your main virtue as a ruler? Not ruining the economy, and therefore I applaud. He could have razed everything he found, ... but no, he had the right to leave the economy as it was before.»
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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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I know plenty of people who do, who get their holidays paid for and in return have their photographs taken on the beach, but not me.
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My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which has thrilled all Europe and filled her inhabitants with horror - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.
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To be able to experience a thousand different lives within my lifetime is something that always appealed to me. I wasn't content with just being one person for the rest of my life.
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When I went back to New Hampshire after graduating from law school, my plan was to go work for a private firm because I had to pay some student loans off and make money and really just be in the private practice of law. Which can be very rewarding.
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People have always thought I was "on" something. After a while I began to think they knew something I didn't know! But I don't know, I just love living. And I love doing what I do.
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Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?
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Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?
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Be fearless, be brave, be bold, love yourself.
