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 think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.
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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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One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.
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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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The atmosphere at Old Trafford is really unique, and when you're a bit tired, they really help you: they shout out your name, and that gives you extra energy.
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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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Doing comedy is still in my veins; that's my first love.
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19: A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
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Let's try common sense. A novel concept.
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I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.
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It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us through these dark nights and is not quenched by spiritual depression. The joy of the Christian is one that survives all downturns in life.
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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.
