"The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism."

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Source : Laurent Binet (2012). “HHhH: A Novel”, p.25, Macmillan

Laurent Binet

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“I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.”

Source : "Taylor Momsen: 'I'm completely neurotic and sleep four hours a day'" by Justin Harp, www.digitalspy.com. March 1, 2012.
“Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.”
“Only if divine love burns in your heart can you awaken in a state of readiness, shaking off the paralyzing sleep that will overcome all humanity, believers and nonbelievers alike.”
“It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its oppositeâ€¦ The reversal of fear of being touched belongs to the nature of crowds. The feeling of relief is most striking where the density of the crowd is greatest”
“MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.”
“It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and develops a certain ruggedness of character....Moreover, it allies us to the pioneer past. In a deep sense, this great land of ours was won for us by hunters.”

Source : Thomas Ligotti (2009). “Teatro Grottesco”, p.53, Random House
“All my life I've dealt with politicians. I know politicians better than anybody. And honestly, if you can't deal with a politician, there's something wrong with you.”
“There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.”

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