Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes
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The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
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Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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Drama starts where logic ends.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
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Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.
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He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.
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Especially in urban areas, nobody cares so much about castes, because you are forced to live in the same buildings. There is so, so little space. You can't be thinking about whether you are living in a street that has only Brahmins, or in a building that has been touched only by Muslims or Christians. You just live there, because that's the only place that you can find. So such distinctions just crumble away. There are people who maintain them, at all costs. But for the most part, it doesn't matter.
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As someone who has led his party through two general elections, I have not always been immune from feeling the pressure of electioneering tactics.
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Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.
