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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Quotes

I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: german
Birth: May 7, 1927 - April 3, 2013

Topics

Education I Am Weak English Constant

All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it.

Good Bad Want Pretty Dad

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?

John Archibald Wheeler

Beautiful Simple Stupid Say Will

There's a reason screens are only this thick.

Reason Only Screens Thick

I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

Success Shoes You Find Living Empty

It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.

Yourself You Nice Hollywood See

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

Soren Kierkegaard

Life Man Remember Forget More He

I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends.

Family Learning Writing Friends Way

People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing.

People Me Singing Songwriting Like

The experience of watching great cinema - great art - is life enriching and spiritually uplifting no matter whether it's about as difficult as it gets, like 'Breaking the Waves,' or as light as it gets, like 'Jerry Maguire,' 'Election' or 'Toy Story.'

Life Great Art Light Experience

The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

Education Think America Values Very

For me, the relationship with my father is the most important thing that I have.

Father Relationship Me Important

You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it has something to do with the period. Obviously, the artists have something to do with one another. They tend to set up certain common qualities among themselves.

Small You Look Know Whatever Up

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