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Elias Canetti Quotes

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: swiss
Birth: July 25, 1905 - August 13, 1994

Topics

Eyes Decision Walk People Why Open

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

Art Comedy Content Like Generic

Cities are a melting pot for different ideas, and diversity brings a high-energy rhythm that I don't think we'd know was gone until it was too late.

Diversity Ideas Think Late Know

I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.

Coffee Grace Writing Story Short

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

Time Small Reading You I Can More

I detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable.

Computers You Information Lost Up

The direction is going the right way for respect for aboriginal people in North America, and all we can do is stand up and say, 'Please do it faster.'

Robbie Robertson

Respect People Stand Up Direction Up

The French-Cajun culture is similar to mine - they're Catholic, they play accordions, and they eat hot chiles.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Culture Play Hot Eat Mine Catholic

When I hear the bagpipes, it makes the hairs on my neck stand on end. It always makes me weep.

Me End Stand Always Neck Hear

I want to graduate high school, so it's very important to me, and I'll be focusing hard on that as well.

School Me High School Important Want

Israel is my past. My two boys are my future.

Future Past Two Israel

If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.

Comedy You Upset Offended Try Fail

I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.

Live World Think Television Would

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