Agota Kristof The Notebook Quotes

#1. The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence.

Joseph Campbell

#2. The government of any nation always represents the most corrupt part of a nation

Sunday Adelaja

#3. Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.

David Brock

#4. An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

Steven Weinberg

#5. I don't know if the record is going to happen. I don't really think about the record. There are other things I worry about.

Barry Bonds

#6. This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.

Robert Fulghum

#7. Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.

Bill Bryson

#8. There's enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.

Fernando Pessoa

#9. Your history does not need to define your destiny.

Christine Caine

#10. The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

Katori Hall

#12. I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.

John Fante