Haruki Murakami Quotes
When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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The harder I work, the luckier I get.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.
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I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.
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I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.
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A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for.
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I remember your name perfectly, but I just can't think of your face.
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It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.
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Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding.
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I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.
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When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.
