"Freud was just a novelist."

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Source : "The Big Life" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2005.

Peter Ackroyd

#Novelists Quotes

“[John Calvin] writes clearly, directly, without artifice, and gets straight to the practical heart of the matter.”
“My most memorable science fiction experience was Star Wars and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.”
“As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.”
“Only the dying take pleasure in the details of what the healthy fail to notice.”
“When I was a teenager, I thought I wanted to be an actor. I worked on an Indian soap opera that was my first exposure to production. But I quickly became disillusioned by acting and seeing that in the movies I loved and the TV I loved, no one looked like me. There weren't going to be any leading roles that would be interested in casting someone with my face.”
“I've always hated the way I looked, and I've never complained about my brains.”

Source : "Richard Griffiths: 'I've always hated the way I look'" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2005.
“Talk to Allah in your own language with your heart fully present. Allah doesn't need you to rhyme or speak arabic.”

Source : FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Dec 18, 2013
“I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.”

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