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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If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.
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If you really want something in this life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.
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It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
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I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle of history - the rather grimy normality of the 70s, which did, indeed, retain some traces of human innocence, but were also girded about by the demons of experience.
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Darkness, whether in mood or in night, is natural. So if we flow with the black bile of melancholia and endure the terrible darkness of depression, eventually we will break through into the light of joy. This is the Tao (the Way) of darkness or depression-this is the Mystery of its evolution.
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History is the footsteps of free men towards destiny.
