"I expected more from literature than from real, naked life."

-- Gunter Grass

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“Der Mensch ist, was er isst. Man is what he eats.”
“Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.”
“The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect originally, but to find by their breath whether they had been drinking wine, this being criminal for women to do, as it sometimes led to adultery.”
“It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience, Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achieve.”
“I cry. Evil dissolves, and love, like foam; that love. Prattle of children powers me home, my heart claps like the swanâ€™s under a frenzy of who love me and who shine.”
“Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.”

Source : Kathy Acker (1997). “Bodies of Work: Essays”, Serpents Tail
“When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all â€” except life. We shall have found the basis of everything â€” of the earth we walk on, of the air we breathe, of the sunshine, of our physical body itself, of everything in the world, however great or however small â€” except life.”

Source : "The Wit and Wisdom of the 20th Century: A Dictionary of Quotations‎". Book by Frank S. Pepper, p. 226, 1987.
“Only love can break your heart.”

Source : Song: Only Love Can Break Your Heart-live

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