"To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?"

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Source : Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.178, Atlantic Books Ltd

Pascal Mercier

#Discovery Quotes #Creation Quotes

“Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.”
“A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom. ... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom - his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom.”
“Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim.”

Source : "Ivor Cutler" by Mark Espiner, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2006.
“I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between.”
“simplicity is the best sophistication”
“I kind of have the most amazing fans ever. They are the most committed, passionate people, and I love them so much.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.”

Source : Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. October 19, 2010.
“I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.”

Source : James Robertson (2006). “The testament of Gideon Mack”

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