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1Q84
by
Haruki Murakami
Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
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5 Texts
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On World:
Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.
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On Writing:
Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.
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On Mind:
Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.
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On World:
It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.
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On Amusement:
It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously."
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On Think:
Most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.
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On Heart:
There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.
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On Time:
Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.
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On Friendship:
Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.
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On Death:
A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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