Haruki Murakami Quotes
Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds made up a single universe, and the universe waited there in the book to be discovered by the reader.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
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As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.
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I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.
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I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.
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To convince any man against his will is hard, but to please him against his will is justly pronounced by Dryden to be above the reach of human abilities.
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There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
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It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'
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If I could visit dead authors, I'd head right over to E. B. White, though I'm so in awe of him I'd probably just sit at his feet and weep. He's the master of clarity, of understated humor, of palatable political conviction.
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Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children - and the next day, it's completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that's when I had to man up.
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There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.
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I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.
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If people are honest, they'll admit that I do have a fan base.
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The whole idea of death is something that we tend to kind of really not deal with at all.
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I'm pretty restless in bed, so I can lie there for a couple of hours and be like, 'Hey, that happened today. What if that happened at a zoo?' I'll jot the idea down. Then I'm like, 'All right, so now that it's a zoo, that penguin's loose,' or, whatever. I usually start with broad ideas.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them.
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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
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To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.
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Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds made up a single universe, and the universe waited there in the book to be discovered by the reader.
