Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes
Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.
Quotes to Explore
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.
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As he followed Bill back to the others a wry though came to him, born no doubt of the wine he had drunk. He seemed set on course to become just as reckless a godfather to Teddy Lupin as Sirius Black had been to him.
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I think the American people, you know, they're going to want that new car smell. They want to drive something off the lot that doesn't have as much mileage as me.
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I was brought up to believe that it's family first. Of all the people my parents knew, the family was most important. You always turn to your family, and the family supports you. We do what we can to support our young and go and see the grandchildren if they're doing plays at school and their sports events.
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Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.
