"The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself."

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Source : Robert Walser (2013). “The Walk”, p.10, Profile Books

Robert Walser

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“He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.”
“Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well.”

Source : Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.
“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.”
“It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.”
“Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.”
“I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.”
“You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you see a ship's wake in the Indian Ocean and brush fires in Africa and a lightning storm walking its way across Australia. You see the reds and the pinks of the Australian desert, and it's just like a stereoscopic view of all nature, except you're a hundred ninety miles up.”
“It's ridiculous to insinuate that the social recognition of homosexual civil unions damages families or the institution of marriage.”

Source : "Out on the Right: On Being Gay, Conservative and Catholic". Interview with Markus Feldenkirchen and René Pfister, www.spiegel.de. November 23, 2012.

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