Peter Handke famous quotes

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
-- Peter Handke

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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!
-- Peter Handke

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No one can be trusted who isn't thrilled with himself at least now and then.
-- Peter Handke

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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.
-- Peter Handke

#Children #Soul #Soulful

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster,

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

I had an amazing childhood.

Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.

One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.

Never trust a storyteller," he says. "We're all of us liars.