Haruki Murakami Quotes

Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.

Haruki Murakami

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodHappyPeopleMeWorldReading

Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn't done for money. It was done for entertainment. Most white people didn't know anything about this because prejudice kept them from ever seeing what was going on.

Jesse Stone

MoneyPeopleBlackSeeingWhite

I wasn't allowed to watch regular television when I was growing up, only PBS, so I watched 'Masterpiece Theatre' and a lot of Jane Austen. I loved stories where the girl is attracted to a man and it looks like it's not going to work out.

Jennifer Coolidge

WorkGirlManGrowing UpTheatre

I think so much of what we learn when we get older is being comfortable in our own skin and learning what looks good, and not being so trend-centric.

Meghan Markle

LearningGoodThinkLearnSkinOwn

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Angelina Jolie

LifeLoveDeathPeopleThinkMore

Trouble is, we call politics a game, but it isn't one. There is no referee, and the teams make up the rules as they go along. You can't cry foul or offside in politics. Almost anything goes.

Michael Ignatieff

PoliticsGameYouRulesTroubleCry

I think people sometimes get my message misconstrued and believe I'm trying to brag, but I'm genuinely trying to show people that you can do it all yourself, and there's so much power and freedom in that.

Russ

FreedomPowerYourselfPeopleThink

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

LoveLove IsGiftAboveOneself

Especially when you're working so closely with people and you have to develop intense relationships, it's great when you have a relationship and a rapport with them.

Dominic Sherwood

RelationshipGreatPeopleYouThem

Money's never an issue. I can go and work for a small studio theatre somewhere if it's a play I really care about, or do TV or a big commercial West End show.

Conleth Hill

WorkMoneyTheatreSmallCareEnd

We'd just signed with Arista, the record company. Arista was freaking about the phenomenon of tapers showing up at our shows. They were insisting that we put an end to this. And we just didn't want to do that.

Bob Weir

EndShowing UpWantCompanyUpJust

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

LifeEndureUsWouldAbleNone

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Pietro Aretino

LoveWinterSpringGeniusUsLet Us

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