Ernst Junger Quotes
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.
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At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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I'm not bothered about what people say behind my back. I don't need to know about it. I believe in living my life and doing my work. God will give you success. And even if He doesn't, there's a lesson to be learnt.
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There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.
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Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.
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If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
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When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
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Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.
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Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.
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The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
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I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.
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When someone is bothered by someone claiming lack of drinking water, lack of medicine for the sick, and lack of food for the hungry, that person has problems too deep to be explained in an interview.
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It is evident that the Church is always abandoning more the old traditional structures of European life and, therefore, is changing its appearance and living new forms in itself. It's clear most of all that the de-Christianization of Europe is progressing, that the Christian element is always vanishing more from the fabric of society.
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After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.
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In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.
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I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.
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The history of cinema appears to be easy to do, since it is, after all, made up of images; cinema appears to be the only medium where all one has to do is re-project these images so that one can see what has happened.
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In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.
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History is the footsteps of free men towards destiny.
