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Once Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.
- I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.
- So once you're dead there's just nothing? Mari: Basically... Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe,…
- 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…
- it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a…
- She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the…
- So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not intended to keep May Kasahara…
- Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of…
- A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs of this world.…
- Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at…
- I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize. That light shines…
- You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only…
- Hatsumi had a pretty good idea that Nagasawa was sleeping around, but she never complained to him. She was seriously in love with him, but…
- Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like…
- I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be…
- Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground…
- Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.
- Let me tell you something, Mari. The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under…
- We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few…
- Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make such huge profits.…
- Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag…
- And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether…
- 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…
- The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go…
- Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet Ingrid Bergman. Or…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — 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
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins