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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Every generation comes upon the movie again, and then, invariably, the books have a spike in sales because people want to read more about Mary Poppins.
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In any merger, the biggest challenge is always integration of human resources because the people who are coming in have a lot of apprehension.
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Music is monophonic in the Eastern world, especially if we're talking about Indian music, Persian music. What we have in classical and Western world is harmony. So I think it's a great idea to be able to bring the best of two together and create something new.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.
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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.
