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I didnt want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many

I didnt want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think thats a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. Im proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it. – Haruki Murakami

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I dont want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision. – Haruki Murakami

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Politics
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Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I dont think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside. – 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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I dont have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share. – R. Lee Ermey

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Being a monarchist – saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another – is just as warped and strange as being a racist. – Julie Burchill

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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights. – William Hague

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Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art. – Bliss Carman

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The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I dont know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince. – Jodie Foster

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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a mans life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. – Henry David Thoreau

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