Haruki Murakami Quotes
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When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.
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As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.
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Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)
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Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.
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Now and then may not be enough…You have to enjoy it while you’re still young. enjoy it to the fullest. You can use the memories of what you did to warm your body after you get old and can’t do it anymore.
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I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.
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As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.
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Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.
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It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.
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We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.
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As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around.
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I'm not going to get involved in a debate with you. Just remember this: the gods give, and the gods take away. Even if you are not aware of having been granted what you posses, the gods remember what they gave you. They don't forget a thing. You should use the abilities you have been granted with the utmost care.
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No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.
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I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.
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Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.
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I’m just kinda tired. Like a monkey in the rain.
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Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind.
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Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.
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When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach. A place beyond the flow of time.” - But there’s no place like that in this world. - Exactly. Which is why I’m living here, in this world where things are continually damaged, where the heart is fickle, where time flows past without a break.
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Whoa!" he says with a smile. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepen. "Chicken salad a la George Orwell!
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Nakata's empty inside... Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That's what scares me the most.
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Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.
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Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.
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No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.