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

Michel Houellebecq

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" Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism. "

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" In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" My novels are all ideas. "

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" You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" Islam is a dangerous religion. "

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" Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information. "

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" When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers. "

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" Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere. "

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" There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind. "

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" 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. "

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" I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it. "

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" When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent. "

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" I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be. "

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" The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it. "

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" 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.' "

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" The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America. "

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" The most stupid religion is Islam. "

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" The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter. "

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