Haruki Murakami Quotes
In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.
Quotes to Explore
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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There are certain things that I do - I don't eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
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I had as much time to prepare for that moon landing as NASA did, and I still was speechless when it happened. It just was so awe-inspiring to actually be able to see the thing through the television that was a miracle in itself.
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My life was pretty rough.
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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
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My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.
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You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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I get a lot of demos sent my way, and I listen to them, and sometimes they just have something very special.
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The cure until the late 1940s, when there was an antibiotic discovered for tuberculosis, was basically rest. It was fresh, cold air, lots of food - five meals a day, lots of sleep, not very much talking, and for some people, complete stillness.
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You can't win if you're chasing the wrong problem.
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Some people say the things I do are annoying because I'm intentionally trying too hard to be relatable, but I'm really not.
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My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.
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My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.
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Never do I deceive you, Hastings. I only permit you to deceive yourself.
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I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I was writing a story, and it took me years. And when I finished, a friend of mine had the idea that the story should be read as a monologue in a theater.
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The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
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If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.
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In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.
