Haruki Murakami Quotes
In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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I've played women since I was a kid and I've always enjoyed it.
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The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.
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I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.
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God will understand, my lord. And if he doesn't, then he is not God and we need not worry.
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What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?
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I try to grow like a tree, and hope that I can reach my full potential by the end of this short life. Change is good but growth is better.
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In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.
