"But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldnâ€™t it?"

-- Haruki Murakami

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“Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. ...I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories.”
“Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to â€˜repayâ€™ his debt, â€˜his own consciousnessâ€™ of the fact â€˜that he is himself the very substanceâ€™ of debt, so must he â€˜repayâ€™ with himself, so must he â€˜returnâ€™ himself to Him Who owns him absolutely.”
“When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”
“I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.”
“I think that there are many ways in which people look for heroes, messiahs, things like that in society. I think some people are looking for something that maybe they don't possess. To me, ultimately, you are looking for someone who understands you, or at least you think understands you. It all comes down to understanding for who we look to as heroes.”

Source : Interview with Jasper Anson, www.askmen.com.
“Food is an important lens onto the civil rights movement. One of the central issues of the movement was the right to eat in places that served the public. This battle led to the lunch counter sit-ins, which became embattled, contested places.”
“A people that does not protect its racial purity will perish!”

Source : Speech in 1934. Shown in the "Triumph of the Will" documentary, 1935.
“In art school, they teach you to struggle through the process: If you have your image down, you've painted it, and it's not looking the way you wanted it to, you can do wet on wet - you just keep moving the image around.”

Source : Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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