Quote by Haruki Murakami
I didnt read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a

I didnt read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else. – Haruki Murakami

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I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, its not imagination. Its just a way of watching. – Haruki Murakami

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Imagination
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My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my fathers generation. Its a kind of inheritance, the memory of it. – Haruki Murakami

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I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout – but I know thats not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated about. – Robert Gibbs

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They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher. – Louis Farrakhan

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My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teachers family. – Simon van der Meer

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The thing I loved the most – and still love the most about teaching – is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits. – Mike Krzyzewski

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