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Herta Muller Quotes

Through writing, one experiences something different to what one experiences with the five senses one has because language is a different metier.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: german
Birth: August 17, 1953

Topics

Writing Language Through Something

Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.

Andre Leon Talley

Waiting Me Doctor Boring Line See

As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.

Me See I See Force Writer Editors

Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

Life Faith Broken People View Kind

I wanted to be Cher for a long time, but not for the singing. I just thought she was so cool. I wanted her long hair, and I wanted to weigh five pounds.

Trisha Yearwood

Time Cool Hair Singing Thought Long

I want to show my range before I fall into any typecasting. I've turned down a lot of things trying to wait. But at the end of my career, whether that be tomorrow or 40 years from now, I would like to look back and be able to say, 'Ah, I never fell into any gimmicks.'

Tomorrow Wait End Fall Look Career

Be happy or die.

Happy Be Happy Die

Normally, I never dress up.

Roberto Cavalli

Dress Never Up Normally

The Oriental thinks everything in the sense-perceptible world is 'maya'; everything perceived by our senses and all thinking connected with sense perceptions is 'maya,' the great illusion. The only reality is the reality of the soul. What a human being achieves in his or her soul is reality.

Great Soul World Thinking Reality

Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.

Husband Feminist Himself Donald

At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment.

Children Time Black Present Class

I found school very boring and frustrating.

School Boring Found Very Frustrating

I prefer to be known as an executive rather than a girl.

Girl Executive Rather Than Known

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