Erich Maria Remarque Quotes
We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.
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My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.
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I believe in God.
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Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
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I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative.
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Did you ever have the police follow you for so long, that you get suspicious about your own goddamn self? Maybe I did kill them people.
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You just have to do the thing that you feel is true to your vision, and then the audience will make the decision. But as soon as you feel like you're creating a product to just cater to what you think they want, it never works. It always feels phony. And the audience can tell immediately.
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I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.
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You never have to guess where you stand with me.
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An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.
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Writing is both my expression to the world and my way to hide from it - you get who I am without actually seeing me.
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You saw how long the grass was, it was very long and it spoiled the game.
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Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
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There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine... This is a time of monumental shift, from the male dominance of human consciousness back to a balanced relationship between masculine and feminine.
