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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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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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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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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John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.
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Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Happiness is the only thing one should ever be resigned to.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
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It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
