Arthur Koestler Quotes

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Arthur Koestler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: hungarian
  • Birth: September 5, 1905 - March 1, 1983

Topics

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You cannot have the media so close to you that it becomes your voice. This is no good because it becomes too extreme, and people will resent it.

Jimmy Lai

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I like something about George W. Bush. A lot. After spending more than a decade having almost physiological-chemical reactions anytime I saw him, getting the heebie-jeebies whenever he spoke - after being sure from the start that he was a Gremlin on the wing of America - I really like the paintings of George W. Bush.

Jerry Saltz

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A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

Steven Price

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Some people are natural beauties, some have great style, but sometimes it comes from talent. Take Kate Winslet: I was listening to her speech at the Golden Globes. That woman has so much intensity. She's amazing to watch and to listen to. With some people, it can even be their voice that makes them attractive.

Mary-Kate Olsen

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Ice cream brings people together.

Doug Ducey

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I like to lift and do cardio to stay in shape, so I can walk the dog on somebody, and I like to be strong, but running 10 miles or a decathlon? That don't support my interests.

Brantley Gilbert

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I was 13 when I reached my present height. I was so skinny I looked like one of those starving people in Africa. The boys in my class would beat me up because I was too tall.

Brigitte Nielsen

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I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.

Anne Reid

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Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

Augustus Hare

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India helped Bangladesh to achieve independence. The Bangladeshis should remain happy inside the territory of their own country.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.

William Gibson

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No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why should pop musicians be any different?

Paul Weller

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