Michel Houellebecq Quotes
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday.
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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.
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We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.
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Film contains potentialities for the combination of all the arts such as Wagner never dreamt of.
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I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.
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That was the danger Samuel Butler jestingly prophesied in Erewhon, the danger that the human being might become a means whereby the machine perpetuated itself and extended its dominion.
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If there are people who treat me wrong, I either talk to them about it, or I don't talk to them anymore. It's been the most thoughtful and considerate thing I could do for myself and other people. I am going to try to do that forever.
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I'm like a menu at an expensive restaurant; you can look at me, but you can't afford me.
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When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.
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I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the ancient Greek polis.
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My life and my happiness is most important to me than any job or anything in the world.
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I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
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The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.
