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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HBO churn out some unbelievable stuff. They really got me with things like 'Band of Brothers.' But you can't beat 'The Sopranos.'
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The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
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Be fearless, be brave, be bold, love yourself.
