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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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Islam is a dangerous religion.
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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.
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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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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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The triumph of vegetation is total.
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In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate.
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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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Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.
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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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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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