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Edmond de Goncourt Quotes

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

Edmond de Goncourt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: french
Birth: May 26, 1822 - July 16, 1896

Topics

Life World Die Back Civilization

If Michelle Obama had stepped out in an outrageously priced jacket by an Italian designer, heads would have rolled. People would have said it was deplorable.

People Said Jacket Out Would Heads

Consumers do not want a perceived cheap car; they want a car to flaunt. A car is as much about status and identity as it is about transport.

Jens Martin Skibsted

Car Identity Want Cheap Transport

One of the major problems with Obamacare - and another reason it needs to be entirely repealed - is that it prevents Montanans from developing our own, better health care system.

Health Problems Care Better Reason

I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.

Feel Doing You Actor Always Years

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

Me You Morality Taste Tell Only

Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.

Character Great Imagination Writing

I haven't had the most lucrative career. If I'm going to be completely honest, I'm a one-hit wonder.

Career Wonder Honest Going Most Had

I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.

World Free Political Long Country

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

Writing Start Think Someone Bad

I'm not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago.

Chris Hemsworth

Alone Week Three Watching Years Did

I used to be a compulsive exerciser, but I'm over that.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

Over Used Compulsive

Near-zero policy rates that may be considerably expansionary in an economy with high inflation could be contractionary when inflation is too close to zero, or worse, deflation has set in.

Athanasios Orphanides

Economy Policy High May Inflation

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