"There's an essential order you have to follow in everything. It's a way of showing respect, following everything in the correct order."
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Haruki Murakami quotes (page 53 of 55)
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"Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either."
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"I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it."
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"Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in ten enjoyed the place and said he'd come again, that was enough. If one out of ten was a repeat customer, then the business would survive. To put it another way, it didn't matter if nine out of ten didn't like my bar. This realization lifted a weight off my shoulders. Still, I had to make sure that the one person who did like the place."
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"Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers."
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"Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given day to weigh the good news versus the bad news, and you'll see what I mean."
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"And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it, and he probably never would."
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"I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact."
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"And when you come back to Japan next summer, let's have that date or whatever you want to call it. We can go to the zoo or the botanical garden or the aquarium, and then we'll have the most politically correct and scrumptious omelets we can find."
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"One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange."
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"Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess."
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"Nature is actually unnatural"
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"It's my motto for life. 'Walk slowly; drink lots of water."
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"That's good. I was worried. Of course, I do have a few things wrong with me, but those are strictly problems I keep inside. I'd hate to think they were obvious to anybody else. Especially at the swimming pool in the summer."
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"let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers."
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"My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life - I didn’t. I loved reading novels to distraction, but didn’t write well enough to be a novelist; being an editor or a critic was out, too, since my tastes ran to the extremes. Novels should be for pure personal enjoyment, I decided, not part of your work or study. That’s why I didn’t study literature"
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"The problem was, I think, that the places I fit in were always falling behind the rimes."
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"The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape."
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"sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get out of bed, go to the kitchen, and pour myself a whiskey. glass in hand, i'd look down at the darkened cemetary across teh way and the headlights of the cars on the road. the moments of time linking night and dawn were long and dark. if i could cry, it might make things easier. but what would i cry over? i was too self centered to cry for other people, too old to cry for myself."
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"How many Sundays - how many hundreds of Sundays like this - lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful, and lonely,” I said aloud to myself. On Sundays, I didn't wind my spring."
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