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Bernhard Schlink Quotes

I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with nothing to do but write.

Bernhard Schlink

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: german
Birth: July 6, 1944

Topics

Love I Am Happy Writing Week Three

For me to be able to punch above my weight creatively, to actually take a stand for what I was doing, I had to take on everything. I had to be the person who says, 'I wrote it. I directed it.'

Me Stand Doing Person Everything

I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

Nature Truth Uncomfortable Comfort

For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, and I liked being out there playing in the sun, and it was a simpler time for all of us.

Time Baseball Happy Sun Me Feelings

The gimmicks that have driven the fast food sector for years - dollar menus, limited time offers, and merchandising partnerships - are not producing results like they used to, as consumers simply want better tasting, nutritious food and a more compelling experience, not gimmicks.

Time Food Experience Partnerships

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

Value Principles Human Permanent

I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

Michel Houellebecq

Writing World Reading Rich View You

I have never had a problem with national service. I am not sure the draft is the way to go about it, but I am positive that you live in a society and you take from this society, which every citizen here does. You owe something back to this country, and that should be paid back in some form of national service.

Montel Williams

Positive Live Service I Am Society

In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

Depression War Slavery America You

I've gone to prom multiple times, had fights with the principal, a relationship with my teacher. When people ask if I wish I had gone to high school, I tell them that I've acted all of that stuff out, and it just doesn't seem like fun.

Britt Robertson

Relationship Teacher School Fun Wish

I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.

Brain Process Trying Comfortable Out

I don't want to be known as the Aerosmith chick, but it's fun to put on the boots and makeup and act like a tough girl.

Alicia Silverstone

Girl Fun Makeup Tough Boots Want

Who can refute a sneer?

Who Refute Sneer

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