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Hermann Hesse Quotes

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: german
Birth: July 2, 1877 - August 9, 1962

Topics

Faith History Chaos Meaning Study

All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context.

Jesse Kellerman

Good Good And Evil Evil Action Deal

Naming a bridge after Dr. King was the right thing to do.

King Bridge The Right Thing Right Dr

Yes, 'Spider-Man' has had an infinite capacity to trouble and disappoint. But it's also been the greatest triumph of my entire career.

Career Trouble Infinite Triumph Yes

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

Nice Where Like Ours Followed Loads

What I dislike is conventional realism - a system of gestures, descriptions, psychological revelations that was once a vital way of representing the world but has become hackneyed through endless repetition. I'd argue that a conventional realist isn't a realist at all, but a falsifier of the real.

Steven Millhauser

World Repetition Way Become Dislike

I have to confess that I've never been a great fan of Christmas or, as it's known in our house, The Monster That Ate the Last Third of the Year. It's mostly the rampant consumerism I object to, but I'm also a little wary of the annual crop of new Christmas stories and sometimes wonder why anyone bothers.

Great Year House Wonder Sometimes

Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.

Happiness Money You Look Places Buy

In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Me Drawing Buildings First Saw His

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

You See Something Get Behind

The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.

Today Sleep Night Go Know Possible

Than Shwe ordered the confiscation of all cell phones and laptops and computers so no reportage could come out of Burma. It seemed clear that a demon, something diabolical, rather than something compassionate and human was in charge of Burma.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Computers Human Cell Phones Phones

I don't think of my music in terms of a career. I just want to get it out there and do it. I'm not manipulating my sound to be like anybody or trying to write to sound like anybody else.

Bryan Greenberg

Music Think Trying Career Want Out

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