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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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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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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When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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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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Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff.
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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 want to co-produce again.
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There aren't a lot of cover bands that do Boston material or do it well, and the reason for that is that they are hard to play. So we put a lot of work into it. The musicians that I've managed to surround myself with after all of these years are individuals who really excel at what they do.
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For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation are projected from a comfortable distance.
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I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter.
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Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
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History is the footsteps of free men towards destiny.
