Haruki Murakami Quotes
I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.
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We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.
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I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.
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If you torture words enough, they'll confess to anything.
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I have learned that love is the most powerful force available to us. When we have real love we have the strength to perform miracles.
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If I change in any way, I'm not going to be the same player.
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In the morning, I look at my calendar and think about whether things that aren't critical can be moved to the next week.
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I would like to work with whoever would like to have me.
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There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
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King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.
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I love kids, and I think I would be a great dad. I had great parents, and my mother and father are my best friends, so I'd have good examples to lead from.
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But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.
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I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian.
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Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.
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I was a freshman at Stanford University the first time someone called me a 'bama.' One of my new friends from D.C. said it, laughing, and even though I didn't know what it meant, exactly, I got that it was some kind of insult. I must have smirked or shrugged, which made him laugh harder, and then he called me 'country,' too.
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I touch God in my song as the hill touched the far-away sea with its waterfall.
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The child is not mine as the first was,I cannot sing it to rest,I cannot lift it up fatherlyAnd bliss it upon my breast;Yet it lies in my little one's cradleAnd sits in my little one's chair,And the light of the heaven she's gone toTransfigures its golden hair.
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I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?
