"I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling."

-- Martin Kippenberger

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #Consoling Quotes

“Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.”

Source : Andrew Pyper (2013). “Lost Girls: A Novel”, p.431, Simon and Schuster
“Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.”
“This is going to sound crazy, especially in America where there is a total inflation of the word "love," but in a sense you have to love the people in front of the camera. There has to be trust between the one who is behind the camera and the people on the other side, so that they can relax. They have to feel they are safe, and that way they don't have to pretend just because they are scared.”
“When you work in the inner mind, you invoke and receive the help of the impersonal, unlimited resources of the universe.”
“I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.”
“Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice”
“Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.”
“For example, an author whose parents fled a war but he himself was born in the country where they fled to, and that is where he went to school and college before he wrote his first book of poetry in the language of this country - he should be labeled as: "Author whose parents fled a war but he himself was born in the country where they fled to, and that is where he went to school and college before he wrote his first book of poetry in the language of this country."”

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