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If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about war, concentration, world, people

Because one of the curious things about writing is that it doesn't matter how perfect you try and get it, that you never quite get the sentence right, or there are things that you miss and, you know, you have work repeated a couple of pages later...

Quote by Al Alvarez about literature, couple, things, writing, perfection, rightness, work

I've been gone on the road for the past three years; maybe I've been home for two or three weeks in a year. I literally live - it's like one of those old movies where they show a train, and pages of a calendar are peeling away like leaves, and...

Quote by Chris Isaak about trains, past, home, old, olderness

The night before the English history midterm, your...

The night before the English history midterm, your Biology instructor will assign two hundred pages on planarian.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education, night, history

A web page is only a page until its printed. Then it can...

A web page is only a page until its printed. Then it can be any number of pages.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about numbers

You know, after filming the movie the book was still just as big I think it was actually bigger. I think Stephen King went back and wrote extra pages, he's fantastic.

Quote by Timothy Olyphant

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very...

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about opinion

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about history, concentration, war, world

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony, periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel about history, happiness, harmony, theatre, world

When you are writing the most beautiful page in the book...

When you are writing the most beautiful page in the book of your life, the fate with its eternal irony pours ink over the following pages.

Quote by Veronica Micle about life, irony, destiny, writing

Life: a book that we are not allowed to read before...

Life: a book that we are not allowed to read before living, but only to anticipate what is written one, three, maybe ten pages from now

Quote by Mariana Fulger about life

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