Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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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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Ideas are only as good as your ability to communicate them.
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I feel like anything I've ever done, I've been strongly advised not to do.
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You spend most of your life working and trying to hone your craft, working on your chops, working on your writing, and you don't really think about accolades. Then you get a bit older and they start coming your way. It's a nice pat on the back.
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Mes ki ne mustre s'enfertéA peine en peot aver santé:Amur est plaie dedenz cors,E si ne piert nïent defors.Ceo est un mal que lunges tient,Pur ceo que de nature vient.
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When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind. I don't remember how old she was at the time, but she just had this edgy hour that had so much funny stuff in it, and she was so fearless. If you only watch her on the red carpet, you don't get a sense of what a legendary standup comedian she is.
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I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door.
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The really heroic thing about Nick Hornby is that he lives in north London and rarely leaves it... Every English writer needs their corner that is forever England - but only a few brave men choose to make that corner Highbury.
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
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Be fearless, be brave, be bold, love yourself.
