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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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Michel Houellebecq
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 26
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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 am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.
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The most stupid religion is Islam.
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On Sunday morning I went out for a while in the neighbourhood I bought some raisin bread. The day was warm but a little sad, as Sundays often are in Paris, especially when one doesn't believe in God.
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I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip of a fury, needing to act, yet can do nothing about it because any attempt seems doomed in advance. Failure, everywhere failure. Only suicide hovers above me, gleaming and inaccessible.
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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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The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.
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People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.
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Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.
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Rumor had it that he was homosexual in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.
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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'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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If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.
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As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.
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Beds last on an average much longer than marriages.
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