Haruki Murakami Quotes

That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.

Haruki Murakami

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• One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Up
  • Memories
  • Internet

• When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Time
  • Hope

• To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Fire

• For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Comedy
  • Richer
  • Larger

• In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Try
  • Old

• It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • History
  • Achieving

• It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.

  

  Baron Hill
  • Now
  • Clear
  • Major

• Isn't the purpose of bitcoin mining simply to get rich - or not, as the case may be? Well, at 21, we are less concerned with bitcoin as a financial instrument and more interested in bitcoin as a protocol - and particularly in the industrial uses of bitcoin enabled by embedded mining.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • May
  • Purpose
  • Financial

• I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Think
  • Color
  • Thanks

• Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • House

• The criticism of religion ends with the doctrine that man is the supreme being for man. It ends, therefore, with the categorical imperative to overthrow all those conditions in which man is an abased, enslaved, abandoned, contemptible being.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Criticism

• The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that.

  

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
  • War

• High heels empower women in a way.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Women
  • High

• I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

  

  Leif Garrett

• I'm not an outliner. I come up with a premise and then take it from there.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Up

• I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.

  

  Clive Owen
  • Planning

• I am good at down grading - I have found I can live the same lifestyle in a two-bedroom apartment as in a five-bedroom house.

  

  Britt Ekland
  • Good
  • Live
  • House

• A cheaper British currency could be a crisis if its swift move provoked a broader financial crisis, which it has not, or if it triggered massive inflation. For now, cheaper sterling will hurt some British households and enterprises while being a boon for others.

  

  Kelly Evans
  • Hurt
  • Financial

• I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives.

  

  Lucy Walker
  • Tired

• They ask me what the biggest thing I have going on right now is, and I usually say, "I think this interview?" And then they don't get that it's a joke. So then I say, Yogi Bear 3D. That's my default.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Thinking
  • Interviews
  • Yogi Bear

• If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.

  

  Confucius
  • Fear
  • Ashamed
  • Reflect

• I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up.

  

  David Grossman
  • Reality
  • Imagine
  • Characters

• There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
  • Opinion
  • Drawing

• That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Memories
  • Battle