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Before Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to…
- Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.…
- Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all…
- I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the…
- I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our job is to…
- So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's…
- No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's…
- When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of…
- What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but…
- From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the…
- I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in the…
- Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year,…
- We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died longe ago.Even so, a faint…
- That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know…
- The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music…
- I miss you terribly sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster. Just as you take care of…
- The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music…
- Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What I’ve up till…
- In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell.…
- He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many…
- It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might…
- Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light…
- Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.
- You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can…
- Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the…
More Before Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood