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First Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer. Some choosy people…
- It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this…
- I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and…
- In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.
- So I'm not crazy after all! I thought it looked good myself once I cut it all off. Not one guy likes it, though. They…
- Whenever I meet people for the first time, I get them to talk for ten minutes. Then I size them up from the exact opposite…
- Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink.
- Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people…
- These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the…
- Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.
- The morning air of the pasture turned steadily cooler. Day by day, the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first…
- And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTHING. Make sure you…
- An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good.…
- What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.
- I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words come out. Wrong…
- Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.
- As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside. Something heavy. I felt it from the first time I…
- You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that…
- When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the…
- By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical. First there came the action of running, and accompanying it there was this entity known…
- In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to…
- How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the reality turned out…
- When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away…
- If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in…
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
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- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong