Arturo Pérez-Reverte Quotes
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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I am a common man. Why do I need security?
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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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Desire is the essence of a man.
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Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.
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The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles.
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The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.
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The most explosive book of the twentieth century... I'm not kidding, it explodes!!
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A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.
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We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.
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Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.
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Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.
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Never trust a man who reads only one book.
