Haruki Murakami Quotes
Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.
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I've always been a ravenous consumer of opinion. When I was in my high school library and my college library, I would read 'National Review' and I would read 'The Nation' and I would read 'The American Spectator' and I would read 'Mother Jones.'
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My court skills may have atrophied.
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Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.
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Sometimes people think I'm gay. A lot of people have asked me if I'm gay. I answer, 'Look, not to my knowledge. But I'm still young, it could be that in the future, I'll find out that I'm gay.'
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There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.
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There comes a time to everyone when the world narrows for him to a strait alley, with Death at the end of it, and all his thoughts are fixed on that waiting enemy of mankind.
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The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't commute a death sentence because it's unpolitical.
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Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.
