All Quotes · Page 171
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“To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.”
“The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.”
“Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death.”
“The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.”
“Cynicism is a cheap emotion, a craven substitute for thought and action.”
“A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.”
“Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.”
“Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.”
“Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender.”
“Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of.”
“Nobody is carved in stone, except the very pompous or self-righteous.”
“To exorcise the demons of memory, it is sometimes necessary to tell them as a story.”
“Tell me a story you have never told anyone before. Make it up for me.”
“We always think things like that only happen elsewhere, until they happen to us too.”
“Everybody has a story and all stories are interesting if they are told in the right tone.”
“Happy endings usually don't work for me. I like open endings. I trust the reader's imagination.”