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A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something. ↗

— Olivia Munn

#acne #being #car #computer #game

I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me. ↗

— Olivia Munn

#especially #fact #i #like #me

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal. ↗

— Alice Munro

#feel #i #i feel #know #learned

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. ↗

— Alice Munro

#keep #memory #other #our #ourselves

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story. ↗

— Alice Munro

#final #get #gets #i #lost

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#continue #dream #everyday #everyday life #having

My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#heroes #how #know #other #people

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#be different #because #different #everyone #famous

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#culture #games #high #i #including

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

#i #just #me #parallel #realized