Haruki Murakami Quotes
Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.
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I guess I've grown to admire Queen Elizabeth II more. I've always struggled with my feelings about the Royal Family. I am a supporter. I'm not someone who thinks we should get rid of them. But what I've struggled with is the lack of emotionality that the Queen seems to share.
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Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
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I only know we loved in vain;I only feel - farewell! farewell!
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Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.
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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
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The flames roll'd onĀ-he would not goWithout his father's word;That father, faint in death below,His voice no longer heard.
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I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.
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If you live through the death of your child, you should be able to talk about it and let other people know it's OK to go on.
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Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.