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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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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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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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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I've never really gone for the razzle-dazzle types: no quarterbacks, no flashy guys, and no Prince Charmings.
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I roller skated when I was younger, but when you're on a track that's slanted and you're with other people all skating in a pack, it's a whole different sport.
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My philosophy is always to hire the best from the best.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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Kids don't hesitate to ask questions. And it's a great honor to have the kids say, 'Your books have made me trust you.'
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
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With flowing tail and flying mane, Wide nostrils never stretched by pain, Mouth bloodless to bit or rein, And feet that iron never shod, And flanks unscar'd by spur or rod, A thousand horses - the wild - the free - Like waves that follow o'er the sea, Came thickly thundering on.
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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?
