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Men Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
- In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts.…
- Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very…
- Dance," said the Sheep Man. "Yougottadance. Aslongasthemusicplays. Yougotta dance. Don'teventhinkwhy. Starttothink, yourfeetstop. Yourfeetstop, wegetstuck. Wegetstuck, you'restuck. Sodon'tpayanymind, nomatterhowdumb. Yougottakeepthestep. Yougottalimberup. Yougottaloosenwhatyoubolteddown. Yougottauseallyougot. Weknowyou're tired, tiredandscared.…
- Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.
- Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko
- I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense…
- I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel…
- It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous eyes of the…
- A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all…
- It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not…
- At any rate, that’s how I started running. Thirty three—that’s how old I was then. Still young enough, though no longer a young man. The…
- She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But there was something in her…
- The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place where he is…
- In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually…
- Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.
- Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system
- Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell.
- Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an…
- Only people who have been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own way, each has…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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