"What can you do. You get a name, you're called 'Thomas Bernhard', and it stays that way for the rest of your life. And if at some point you go for a walk in the woods, and someone takes a photo of you, then for the next eighty years you're always walking in the woods. There's nothing you can do about it."

-- Thomas Bernhard

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“Religious liberty should mean religious liberty for everyone, employees as well.”
“Whatever work we do, our mind should be centered on God.”
“The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.”
“A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.”
“There's no buying a greasy breakfast in L.A. - it's all organic juices.”
“Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.”
“People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.”

Source : PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON (1878). “MODERN FRENCHMEN”
“There are happy blues, sad blues, lonesome blues, red-hot blues, mad blues, and loving blues. Blues is a testimony to the fullness of life.”

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