"I think that's just what happens when you write a big bestseller. After that you need to find out: What's the best way to go on? And the worst thing you could do would be to try to repeat the formula. That would be suffocating."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Daniel Kehlmann

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.”

Source : BBC Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. March 30, 2004.
“When love fills your life all limitations are gone. The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love.”

Source : Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.12, Friends of Peace PIlgrim
“You've got to be ready for everything. When it comes to everyone's opinion, that's what you've got to go through.”
“I think Im pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.”
“As a body in a world, here is our choice: we can be more loving or less loving. That's it. We can relax as the entire moment's show of love's swirl, feeling open as all--a vicious rainstorm, tweeting birds, our lover's lips, a sense of worthlessness-- or we can close to some aspect of experience, pulling away as if we were separate.”
“Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little voice will tell you which number to press. If you have borderline personality disorder hang up; you have already pushed everybody's buttons.”
“The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.”

Source : Interview with Jane Marie, believermag.com. January 1, 2015.
“You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.”

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