"To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal."

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Source : Violette Leduc (1965). “La bâtarde: an autobiography”

Violette Leduc

“When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.”
“I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 2, 2013.
“I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians.”
“Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.”
“I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.”
“It's definitely not true what they say about women wanting a guy with a sense of humour. What women mean is that they want a guy with a sense of humour who is really handsome. If a girl had a choice between Brad Pitt or me, she'd pick Brad Pitt. And I'm a lot funnier than he is.”
“I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just print another ten'.”
“Politics is a dynamic process. When I was a young man in the 1970s, Yasser Arafat had just perpetrated various terrorist attacks. Just a few years later, after I had entered European Parliament, the same Yasser Arafat was given the Nobel Peace Prize.”

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