Haruki Murakami Quotes
When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.
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I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life.
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I really like the Gorillaz and Arctic Monkeys.
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As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way.
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I had 12 years in the Army before I ever faced combat.
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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.
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To say what or where we came from has nothing to do with what or where we came from. We do not come from there any more, but only from each word that proceeds out of the mouth of the unnamed. And yet sometimes it is our only way of pointing to who we are.
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Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
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When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.
