Top 55 Walter Moers Quotes
#1. But when there's light, there's darkness as well.
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#3. Few minded what their fellow citizens got up to as long as they themselves were left in peace.
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#4. I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality. Once it has left an instrument it becomes its own master, a free and independent creature of sound, weightless, incorporeal and perfectly in tune with the universe.
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#5. ...I simply wasn't born to remain in the same place for evermore...
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#6. Im as good as dead, but they haven't buried me yet.
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#7. Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle.
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#8. ...but I was urged on by a courage born of despair.
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#9. Beneath me lay the Lake of Oblivion, above me loomed Insanity.
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#10. If what I reading has the power to grip me, I can read under the most difficult circumstances.
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#12. When bad habits become a habit, you have to turn over a new leaf.
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#13. WI felt I ought to comment on that, but nothing occurred to me.
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#14. Why not ask yourself whether your other dreams are real? You go on trips and undergo the strangest experiences every night. How do you know they only take place in your mind?
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#15. Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that half the week was over.
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#16. There are times when the truth is the worst possible thing you can come out with.
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#17. The Central Indian Trifakirs, though something of a pest, were quite harmless. They always appeared in threes, of course, and made a practice of handing out muddle-headed philosophical tracts.
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#18. If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.
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#21. That's the reward for your good deed,' I explained, 'a clear conscience. It really perks you up.
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#22. A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his secrets, after all; they make him seem attractive and mysterious.
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#23. Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.
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#25. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been like that.
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#27. Rumo!" said Rumo.
"That's right!" Smyke exclaimed. "You Rumo, me Smyke."
"You Rumo, me Smyke." Rumo repeated eagerly.
"No, no." Smyke chuckled.
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#28. Having jettisoned all my ballast, I concentrated on escaping.
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#29. I had dispensed with a rudder on the principal that fate must be given a chance.
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#30. He wasn't such a bad fellow after all. The rudiments of self-improvement and the intention to achieve it were definitely present.
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#31. People always covet what they themselves do not possess.
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#33. I know people whose lives have been transformed by a good deed.
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#34. It was part of the beauty, but also the tragedy, of this sport that the spectators were the ultimate judges of who sat on the throne.
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#35. Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.
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#36. The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.
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#37. From the stars we come, to the stars we go. Life is but a journey into the unknown.
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#38. There's a reason for every journey, and mine was prompted by boredom and the recklessness of youth, by a wish to break the bounds of my normal existence and familiarise myself with life and the world at large.
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#39. Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you want to write, write. If you can't find the makings of a story inside yourself, you won't find them anywhere.
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#40. It's quite simple, just follow the dotted line," the Planmaker explained. "Don't let any bad idea lead you astray. Don't let them persuade you to take a short cut or take one yourself. Life is a winding path. One sometimes has to make detours. That's my humble opinion, anyway.
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#41. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written, that's all.
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#42. Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.
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#43. Where shadows dim with shadows mate,
in caverns deep and dark.
Where old books dream of bygone days,
when they were wood and bark ...
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#44. Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than authors; they're called artists.
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#45. For some miracles can only occur in the dark.
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#46. Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.
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#47. That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.
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#48. He gave me a look of mingled anticipation, curiosity, and compassion, like a cat with a captive bird in its claws.
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#49. However great the challenge, it's easier to overcome with a decent meal inside of you.
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#50. On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.
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#51. I never trained, however, because I was a spontaneous talent. Practising spoiled my style.
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#52. I've never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can't arrange a library in alphabetical order until you've collected one.
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#53. If he survived Roaming Rock, he kept telling himself, death would have lost its sting.
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#54. No one who writes a good book is really dead.
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#55. Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.
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