Arnon Grunberg Quotes
The relative success of the bitcoin proves that money first and foremost depends on trust. Neither gold nor bonds are needed to back up a currency.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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The thermodynamic properties of electrolyte solutions can be determined from the measurements of the voltage between electrodes reversible to both ions.
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My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.
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Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.
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I'm definitely more of a 'think game' kind of girl. I'll read every single dialogue and codex entry and lore entry. I really do love projecting myself and creating my character.
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I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.
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I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.
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Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set.
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If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.
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As a kid, I think I rearranged the rooms of almost every house on the block.
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I have a career I love more than I can tell you, and I have it because I work incredibly hard pretty much every single day.
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It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.
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What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because they force us or because we're afraid they might force us?
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Politics is involved when you don't tackle inefficiency and burden people with higher tariffs.
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For a long time I had a vintage stall, where I sold men's vintage clothing, and my girlfriend was convinced it was just to do with a problem I had where I just couldn't stop buying senseless clothes, even if they didn't fit me.
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How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.
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You would fancy any man who gave you baklava," I tease. "You think I am some kind of sharmuta for sweets?
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The relative success of the bitcoin proves that money first and foremost depends on trust. Neither gold nor bonds are needed to back up a currency.
