"I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work."

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Source : "The outsider" by Richard Lea, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.

Amelie Nothomb

#Movement Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Instinct Quotes

“Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.”
“The fact that someone didn't experience the war itself doesn't mean that he doesn't perceive its consequences.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.”
“I'll be yours until the stars fall from the sky, yours until the rivers run dry. In other words, until the day I day.”
“The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.”
“People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.”

Source : L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.121, Macmillan
“A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.”
“Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.”

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