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My Own 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…
- Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't…
- All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you aren't harming others…
- I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.
- I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
- I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy…
- Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a…
- You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The…
- All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No…
- I would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling to see into my own heart. What did I want? And…
- For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and…
- 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…
- I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.
- I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t…
- No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never push the years…
- The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.
- What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in my own body;…
- I think I'll stay alive here a bit longer, and see with my own eyes what's going to happen. I can still die after that…
- Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.
More My Own Quotes
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. — Rodney Atkins
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. — Diane Ackerman
- If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though. — Kevin Bacon
- I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much… — Amy Adams
- I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. — Mikhail Bakunin
- I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene. — Christian Bale