Erno Paasilinna famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.
If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, â€œThat guy is kinda delusional.â€
Dad taught me everything I know, but he would never tell me anything he knew.
Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

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