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" I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. "
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Music
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" I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there's a mirror in the bathroom, but it's a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don't like mirrors because they take you by surprise. "
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" I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said, 'Walt Disney.' I wanted to make films. But I wasn't offered a camera. I was offered language. So I started telling stories in the theatre and then in my novels. "
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" I am not married anymore. I hate marriage... but it's okay now. "
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" I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished. "
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" Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering. "
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" When I start a book, it's every day. There is no Saturday, no Sunday. It's every day, because if I stop one day, I'm afraid of losing the book and losing the energy. "
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
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" In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, maybe three, but you spend all your time on the road, in the car or in the suburbs. In Brussels, everything is easy. It's not a very big city, and the people are very quiet and warm. "
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" I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects. "
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
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" I don't like apartments - the idea of other people living, copulating and defecating above me - they make me feel as trapped as a slice of ham in a sandwich. When I was a student in Paris, I always rented attics right at the top of buildings, and as soon as I was making enough money, I bought houses. "
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" Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the first time we've ever done it. "
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" You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life. "
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