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Haruki Murakami Quotes

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

Haruki Murakami

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: japanese
Birth: January 12, 1949

Topics

I Am Doing Fast Years Something Am

When I was 13, I came back from summer camp - summer of '74 - and my mother had had an accident during surgery and was in an oxygen tent in a coma. It was so traumatic. My parents had been divorced for six or seven years at that point, and it was sort of the seminal event of my life.

Life Mother Parents My Life Back

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

Opportunity Health Me Care Award

'The Marriage of Souls', like 'The Rationalist', is an exploration of humanist philosophy wrapped between the delicate leaves of an eighteenth-century tale. The story of the two novels - and they should be read as a two-volume work - centres around the old war-horse of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl. But what a boy and what a girl.

Work Marriage Girl Story Philosophy

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

Restaurant Fat Egg Box Out Check

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

Russell M. Nelson

Children Teach Delight Sabbath Our

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

I cook rarely, but I've kind of got two or three dishes that I stick to. I do a great sweet potato and lentil curry.

Great Sweet Three Kind Two Stick

For me, the most exciting thing is that Jane Campion is a woman we can all really look up to. She doesn't have the body of work that some other directors do - no woman director does - but her work is so consistently original, wonderful, masterful.

Work Woman Me Body Look She

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

Doing Buildings I Can Way See Up

The world belongs to the wealthy, and nowhere is this injustice more apparent than in the workplace.

Winnie Byanyima

World Injustice Workplace More Than

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Ambition Others Does Feeds

If the batsman is playing good shots, you accept it, but it is important that we bowl according to what the plan is and not go off it.

Good Plan You Go Important Accept

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