"Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative."

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Source : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.

Martin Walser

#Negative Quotes #Indirect Quotes #Direct Quotes

“It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!”
“I am extremely spiritual. I've not gone into this before because it's personal, but faith is the core of my life.”
“Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.”
“We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.”
“When we cling too tightly to what God did last, we often miss what God wants to do next.”
“You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.”
“I love the honesty of New Yorkers. When a New Yorker says 'let's do lunch,' they actually mean it. In L.A., when they say 'let's do lunch,' they're just trying to say good-bye.”
“You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.”

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