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The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

Michel Houellebecq

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Michel Houellebecq
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 26
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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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A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.
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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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Islam is a dangerous religion.
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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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Beds last on an average much longer than marriages.
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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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Rumor had it that he was homosexual in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.
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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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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 think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.
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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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To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.
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Polemical debates happen all the time in France.
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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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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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Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.
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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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The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.
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