"Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that."

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Source : "The outsider" by Richard Lea, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.

Amelie Nothomb

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Believe me - I've done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don't regret the crazy stuff.”
“The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.”

Source : Masudul Hasan, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1978). “Stories and Biographies from Iqbal”
“There is no good in anything until it is finished.”
“Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.”
“Guys are so predictable. They can't seem to separate fantasy from reality, so I get a lot of bikers and race car drivers hitting on me. They're all just playboys, so they don't interest me.”
“I don't know who Keyser Soze is, but whoever he is, he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.”
“I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.”
“Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon.”

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