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" Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau. "
History
World
Change The World
" I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it. "
Me
Admit
Problems
" I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky. "
Love
Existence
God
" I find it an absolute pleasure to read travel guides, especially the Michelin guides, and their description of places I know I'll probably never visit. I spend a large part of my life reading descriptions of restaurants. "
Know
My Life
Travel
" In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little. "
Writing
My Own
Myself
" I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich. "
View
Rich
Reading
" Islam is a dangerous religion. "
Islam
Dangerous
Religion
" I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death. "
Character
Good And Evil
Death
" I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head. "
You
Influence
Poetry
" I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be. "
Other
Think
People
" I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it. "
Speak
Think
Know
" I think that there is a sharp contrast for most people between life at university, where they meet lots of people, and the moment when they enter the workforce, when they basically no longer meet anyone. Life becomes dull. So as a result people get married to have a personal life. I could elaborate but I think everyone understands. "
Moment
People
Life
" My novels are all ideas. "
Novels
Ideas
" The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America. "
America
Stupid
Intellectual
" The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it. "
You
Dog
He
" The most stupid religion is Islam. "
Most
Islam
Religion
" The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter. "
Over
Matter
Know
" There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind. "
Questions
Mind
Point
" Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information. "
Who
Information
Know
" Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism. "
Like
Will
Racism
" When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers. "
Pessimism
Strong
Dose
" When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent. "
Because
You
Beautiful
" Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere. "
Know
Why
Think
" Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom, but the opposite. That's why I'm glad feminism is dead. "
Women
Clever
Enough
" You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude. "
Death
You
Attitude
" You know, you don't have to have permanent opinions. You can think, every morning, 'I love the world' and go to bed every night thinking, 'I hate the world.' "
Morning
Night
Love
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