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Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#get #got #had #intellectual #into

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#curiosity #debts #duty #family #father

If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#company #day #difficult #doing #head

I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great. ↗

— Dennis Muren

#actor #amazing #any #around #being

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#bypass #channels #closed #makes #many

So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

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