"I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality."

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Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

Alberto Moravia

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Personality Quotes

“The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.”

Source : "Natalie Merchant On Motherhood As Muse". Interview with Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.
“Drafts of domestic legislation must be published, debated and publicly voted on, which gives ample opportunities to civil society organizations and ordinary citizens to at least understand what's being proposed and to voice and to organize opposition before the decision is made.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“I personally object to the veil on aesthetic as well as other grounds; but I must admit that, for instance in the suburbs of American cities, I have often seen women attired more sloppily than our Persian women normally are.”
“Criticism should awaken our attention, not inflame our anger. We should listen to, and not flee from, those who contradict us. Truth should be our cause, no matter in what manner it comes to us.”
“This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.”
“It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.”
“The only love that wonâ€™t disappoint you is one that canâ€™t change, that canâ€™t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. Godâ€™s love is the only thing like that.”
“There is a belief that love has its own justification, that it should be experienced as passionately as possible. The French have a wonderful expression, amour passion, which is the ultimate.”

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