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I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#basis #became #began #being #day

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#else #father #i #japanese #just

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, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#call #express #fiction #how #i

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years. I don't get bored. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#bored #doing #fast #get #i

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

Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#find #go #i #i can #just

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

— Iris Murdoch

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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

Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it? ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#i #order #something #spend #why

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