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“Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.”
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“I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.”
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“If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.”
Source : Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1994.
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“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”
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“I tend to look at the world more from Voltaire's perspective. Incidentally, if you haven't read Candide lately, it's a fabulous book. It's riotously, laugh-out-loud funny in a way that no Shakespeare comedy will ever be.”
Source : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
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“In the Apostolic Exhortation 'Amoris Laetitia,' Pope Francis speaks only in one point about homosexual tendencies. As did the last synod, the Holy Father speaks about the question of how to handle the situation when, in the family, a member of the family discovers him or herself having a homosexual tendency.”
Source : "Cardinal Schonborn on 'Amoris Laetitia': Pope Francis Knows What He Is Talking About". Interview with Deborah Castellano Lubov, zenit.org. April 12, 2016.
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“For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.”
