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I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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I don't 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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If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#kind #language #make #make up #new

It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#children #civilisation #considered #crazy #family

Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#clubs #country #establishment #journalists #outside

Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#after #ago #autobiography #coming #couple

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

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I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play. ↗

— Molly Parker

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