"I really just wanted to write about three brothers. When you do that, though, it gives you this wonderful opportunity to tie together different social milieus, because siblings usually move into different worlds as they grow up."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Daniel Kehlmann

#Brother Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Sibling Quotes

“The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches...”
“The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers.”

Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.219, W. W. Norton & Company
“Heroes inspire us for many reasons: they make tough decisions, they keep going and they get done what matters. But thereâ€™s another reason we love our heroes. Inside us all, we know we have the power to become one ourselves.”
“My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.”
“I'd love to do a song with Tom Waits. Around when I was like 17 or 18, my buddy, D-Money, put me on the Tom Waits and I literally at that point got every one of his albums and kind of studied his music. I like that he provides an entire world for the listener. He's hopefully someone that I could vibe with down the line. I'm not sure how it would sound or even how it could work, but he's always been a huge influence.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The storm hit with all the fury of a woman whoâ€™d been dieting for six months, only to discover sheâ€™d gained four pounds.”
“When I lived in Cookham I was disturbed by a feeling of everything being meaningless.But quite suddenly I became aware that everything was full of special meaning and this made everything holy... I observed this sacred quality in most unexpected quarters.”

Source : Sir Stanley Spencer, Fiona MacCarthy, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Centro Cultural / Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City) (1997). “Stanley Spencer: An English Vision”, Yale University Press
“I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.”

Source : "Jeffrey Tate: 'I've had to fight all my life'" by Tom Service, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.

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