Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.
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Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
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Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.
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Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
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I feel like I've been split open and stuffed with sunshine.
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There are days when I definitely look in the mirror and go, "All right, I need to find a cream." I can't foresee myself ever going under the knife, but then again, I'm only in my mid-thirties. Maybe it's different when you're in your mid-sixties.
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Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Are you a censor? Do you tell people not to say “girl”? Shame on you! If nothing offends you, you’re a saint or you’re psychotic. If a few things offend you, deal with them--fairly. If you’re often offended by things, you’re probably a self-righteous asshole and it’s too bad you weren’t censored yourself--by your mother in an abortion clinic.
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No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.
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It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
