Haruki Murakami Quotes
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If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.
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I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't catch all the detail. I'm not too familiar with the geography of nineteenth century London, for instance, but I still enjoy reading Dickens.
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When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
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It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.
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At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.
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You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don't like as much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. Now I just have to polish these off, and everything'll be OK. Life is a box of chocolates. I suppose you could call it a philosophy.
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She was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing.
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Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?
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For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at all.
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It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.
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What happens when people open their hearts?... They get better.
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Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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Maybe she thought the garbage and rocks in your head were interesting. But finally, garbage is garbage and rocks are rocks.
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Is it against the law for me to know it?
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Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert.
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You always look so cool, like no matter what happens, it’s got nothing to do with you, but you’re not really like that. In your own way, you’re out there fighting as hard as you can, even if other people can’t tell by looking at you.
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So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.
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Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.
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You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.
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Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face.
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And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.
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Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don't want to do. I don't want to interfere with your life.
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A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.