Haruki Murakami Quotes

According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning what?" "Meaning, don't bring unnecessary props into a story. If a pistol appears, it has to be fired at some point. Chekhov liked to write stories that did away with all useless ornamentation.

Haruki Murakami

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• To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

  

  Origen
  • Life
  • End
  • Him

• The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Knowledge
  • Virtue
  • Self-knowledge

• Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • High
  • Chinese
  • Consumption

• The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Will
  • Anger

• I like power and I like to use it.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Power
  • Like
  • Use

• I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but never with anyone for more than three or four months.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Man
  • Girl
  • Youth

• Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Money
  • Giving
  • Best

• We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Being

• My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.

  

  Rajneesh
  • People
  • God
  • Book

• Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Education
  • Become
  • Activity

• I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Game

• You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • God
  • Believe
  • Know

• My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Teacher

• Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Together
  • Colors
  • Puzzle

• I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• I'm not bothered about what people say behind my back. I don't need to know about it. I believe in living my life and doing my work. God will give you success. And even if He doesn't, there's a lesson to be learnt.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes from a misunderstanding of it as a movement.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • People
  • Think
  • Trouble

• The oars game me power but also taught me humility.

  

  Barry S. Strauss
  • Power
  • Game
  • Humility

• Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit these murders. Don't tell me to believe that God can bless this country and that men are judged by their peers. Who among his peers judged him? Was I there? Was the minister there? Was Harry Williams there? Was Farrell Jarreau? Was my aunt? Was Vivian? No, his peers did not judge him, and I will not believe.

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Country

• And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Writing
  • Always
  • Politics

• A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Story
  • Meaning
  • Muscle

• It's so fun to be in love... or so I've heard, The meaning has no feeling even though I understand the word...

  

  Eyedea
  • Word
  • Meaning
  • Be In Love

• According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning what?" "Meaning, don't bring unnecessary props into a story. If a pistol appears, it has to be fired at some point. Chekhov liked to write stories that did away with all useless ornamentation.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Write
  • Meaning
  • Fired