"The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life; they belong to the same social class, the same milieu, they have the same experiences. Once you read one of those books, you have read them all. And this is a problem."

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Source : Source: www.mantlethought.org

Pascal Bruckner

#Book Quotes #Class Quotes #Personality Quotes

“To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line.”
“I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?”
“People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
“After all, time is not money. It is an opportunity to live before you die.”
“You get the right collection of people together and you get the atmosphere together that it is very free where there is no judgment. If you create an atmosphere that is very open you steer the ship.”
“Especially working with Adam Brody, he's just so funny in every day life. Working with him is a lot of fun. We play pranks on each other.”
“I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable.”

Source : "Walliams on love, sexuality and loneliness" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2009.
“XXVIII "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; "Often have I been to it, "Even to its highest tower, "From whence the world looks black." "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a breath, a wind, "A shadow, a phantom; "Long have I pursued it, "But never have I touched "The hem of its garment." And I believed the second traveller; For truth was to me A breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom, And never had I touched The hem of its garment.”

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