"You cannot spend two thousand years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we’re not interested in it anymore."

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Source : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.

Martin Walser

#Years Quotes #Trying Quotes #Not Interested Quotes

“Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it.”
“... truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the heart is saying another ...”
“We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.”
“Palestine must be built up without violating the legitimate interests of the Arabs.. Palestine is not Rhodesia... 600,0000 Arabs live there, who before the sense of justice of the world have exactly the same rights to their homes as we have to our National Home.”
“To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the purpose is shamanic.”
“The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.”

Source : "Michelangelo Antonioni : The Complete Films" edited by Seymour Chatman and Paul Duncan, (p. 113), 2004.
“A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.”
“My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.”

Source : "Farrah Attacks Son's Drug Dealer" by wenn.com, June 1, 2001.

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