"Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks."

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Source : Michel Houellebecq (2003). “Platform: A Novel”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

Michel Houellebecq

#Risk Quotes #Dangerous Quotes

“The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams”
“The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.”
“Music is my biggest passion and Ive just been obsessed with it. Like, always.”
“Tell me a story. / In this century, and moment, of mania, tell me a story. / Make it a story of great distances, and starlight. / The name of the story will be time, / But you must not speak its name. / Tell me a story of deep delight.”
“It is now our generation's task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law - for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.”
“Hurt feelings or discomfort of any kind cannot be cause by another person. No one outside me can hurt me. Thatâ€™s not a possibility. Itâ€™s only when I believe a stressful thought that I get hurt. And Iâ€™m the one whoâ€™s hurting me by believing what I think. This is very good news, because it means that I donâ€™t have to get someone else to stop hurting me. Iâ€™m the one who can stop hurting me. Itâ€™s within my power.”
“When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when your activities and actions become gratifying and purposeful, when what you do serves both yourself and others, when you do not tire within but seek the sweet satisfaction of your life and your work, you are doing what you were meant to be doing.”
“There is no alarm clock like embarrassment,”

Source : Maryrose Wood (2010). “The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling”, p.3, Harper Collins

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