Peter Handke quotes
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“If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.”
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“I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist!”
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“No one can be trusted who isn't thrilled with himself at least now and then.”
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“When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.”
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins
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“Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.”
Source : Aleatha Romig (2011). “Consequences”, p.104, Romig Works LLC
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“One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.”
Source : Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.85, Penguin
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“No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.”
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“Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.”
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“Never trust a storyteller," he says. "We're all of us liars.”
Source : Matthew J. Kirby (2011). “Icefall”, p.161, Scholastic Inc.
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