David Grossman Quotes
I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.
Quotes to Explore
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I'm a very competitive person.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.
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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.
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In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.
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In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.
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I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.
