Elias Canetti Quotes
You need the rhetoric of others, the aversion it inspires, in order to find the way out of your own.
Quotes to Explore
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.
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New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
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But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.
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When it gets down to it you just have to act.
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I have no problem with people eating meat. I would just like it, for the people who do eat meat, for the animals to be treated better. To be treated humanely. Cows in pastures living the life that they're supposed to live. I have no problem with that.
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They the US get our oil and give us a worthless piece of paper.
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My Aunt Agatha, the curse of the Home Counties and a menace to one and all.
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Take a camel.
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The Heidelberg Catechism is like a refreshing bath with cool gospel water.
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I never even had a MySpace.
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Why on earth should we be at each other's throats? Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such ferocity, as if defending honour itself? What could be easier to change than an idea?
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You need the rhetoric of others, the aversion it inspires, in order to find the way out of your own.
