#he

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

#especially #feelings #i #i think #independent

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 father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#father #fought #generation #happened #i

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#love #love is #oneself #other #real

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#get #marriage #public

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#falling #falling in love #go #hardly #into

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

— Iris Murdoch

#bad review #even #important #less #raining

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#end #good #in the end #just #matter

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#comfort #equivalent #general #notion #particular

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#engage #example #excitement #feel #got

I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#am #amazed #cnn #get #i