Haruki Murakami Quotes
Inside him, twenty years dissolved and mixed into one complex, swirling whole. Everything that had accumulated over the years-- all he had seen, all the words he has spoken, all the values he had held-- all of it coalesced into one solid, thick pillar in his heart, the core of which was spinning like a potter's wheel. Wordlessly, Tengo observed the scene, as if watching the destruction and rebirth of a planet.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.
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I am not gay. I never have been gay.
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A desert's a stupid place to put a river.
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In response to a question about what 'keeps her up at night', I worry about the fact that in K-12 education I can look at your zip code and tell whether or not you're going to get a good education.
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We were so busy that we didn't have time to think about how terrible it was or - in fact it felt strangely natural.
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters.
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Be friends with everybody. When you have friends, you will know there is somebody who will stand by you.
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There are some days when I think for sure there are so many other stronger Christians than me out there.
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I think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn't think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out.
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The whole consideration of - ... am I being compared as such and such's grandson and son - that was minuscule compared to the problems I was having just working... I didn't have time to start worrying about who I was in the eyes of the public.
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I love Panthro, so to play him, yeah I'm very very happy.
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I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.
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Let them eat cake.
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I don't consider my homosexuality a political thing. I consider it a sexual and spiritual thing. I only started going to political rallies to meet women.
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Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they're going to pass it on.
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She dumped me for the quarterback after she'd played my body like a banjo. So Sad." "I bet" "I'm serious. I was heartbroken." "For how long?" "A whole week." An eternity in the life of a teenage boy.
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Inside him, twenty years dissolved and mixed into one complex, swirling whole. Everything that had accumulated over the years-- all he had seen, all the words he has spoken, all the values he had held-- all of it coalesced into one solid, thick pillar in his heart, the core of which was spinning like a potter's wheel. Wordlessly, Tengo observed the scene, as if watching the destruction and rebirth of a planet.
