Philipp Meyer Quotes

When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology, not as real people interacting with other real people, we ignore the cost of human lives and blood.

Philipp Meyer

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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

Fairfax Cone
- You
- See
- Advertising
If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

Taylor Wilson
Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

J. G. Ballard
- Like
- Should
- Novelists
Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.

Karl Abraham
- Children
- Child
- Same
In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

Jackie Cooper
- People
- Boy
- Living
I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.

Patrick J. Adams
- Guy
- Me
- Movies