"Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together."

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Source : Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.7, Canongate Books

Erlend Loe

#Animal Quotes #Together Quotes #World Quotes

“A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.”
“Exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.”
“Don't be afraid of new ideas. Be afraid of old ideas. They keep you where you are and stop you from growing and moving forward. Concentrate on where you want to go, not on what you fear.”
“The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.”

Source : Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”
“Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been matched by artistry, intelligence, and comparatively moderated greed. No doubt about it, if style were the one gauge, Chicago would be among the greatest of all the cities of the world.”

Source : Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?”
“A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin.”

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