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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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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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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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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I would rather be respected than elected.
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Because others cannot vibrate in your experience, they cannot affect the outcome of your experience. They can hold their opinions, but unless their opinion affects your opinion, their opinion matters not at all. A million people could be pushing against you, and it would not negatively affect you unless you push back. They are affecting what happens in their experience. They are affecting their point of attraction - but it does not affect you unless you push against them.
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Sometimes it is easier to play someone who is far away from you.
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There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.
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Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.