"People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end not by his head, but by his dog. This fact is more depressing than any other."

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Source : Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Concrete”, p.30, Faber & Faber

Thomas Bernhard

#Depressing Quotes #Dog Quotes #People Quotes

“It was an odd relationship, but then she was an extraordinary woman: a prioress who doubted much of what the church taught; an acclaimed healer who rejected medicine as practised by physicians; and a nun who made enthusiastic love to her man whenever she could get away with it. If I wanted a normal relationship, Merthin told himself, I should have picked a normal girl.”
“Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.”
“The many pro-surveillance advocates I have debated since Snowden blew the whistle have been quick to echo [Google CEO] Eric Schmidt's view that privacy is for people who have something to hide. But none of them would willingly give me the passwords to their email accounts, or allow video cameras in their homes.”
“I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically.”
“Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make oneâ€™s living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldnâ€™t ask for anything better. Itâ€™s as near to godliness as I can get.”

Source : "John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200". Interview with Belinda McKeon, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.
“I can't remember a time when my mom didn't work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners.”
“Who has the right to tell me that I don't deserve this choice?”

Source : "My right to death with dignity at 29" by Brittany Maynard, www.cnn.com. November 2, 2014.
“The secret of life is to have no fear.”

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