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I am a writer and not a judge.
Peter Handke / Novelist
Judge
I Am Writer Am
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I'm a conservative classical writer.
Peter Handke / Novelist
Classical
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We behave as if being alone were a problem.
Peter Handke / Novelist
Behave
Being Alone
Alone Being Alone Being
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Samuel Beckett. He is a kind of hero for me.
Peter Handke / Novelist
Beckett
Samuel
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My place is in Serbia if the NATO criminals bomb.
Peter Handke / Novelist
Nato
Serbia
Bomb
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I don't like intrigue. I'm not a man of intrigue.
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Intrigue
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Of course it would disgust me to tell anyone how to live.
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Disgust
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The most real dialogue for me is when I am alone, writing.
Peter Handke / Novelist
Alone
Dialogue
Real
Alone I Am Me
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If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Peter Handke / Novelist
Design
Childhood
Writing
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Why don't people just open... my works instead of accusing me?
Peter Handke / Novelist
Accusing
Me People Why
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No one can be trusted who isn't thrilled with himself at least now and then.
Peter Handke / Novelist
Now And Then
Trusted
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An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes.
Peter Handke / Novelist
Exemplary
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I am a writer. I am rooted in Tolstoy, I am rooted in Homer, I am rooted in Cervantes.
Peter Handke / Novelist
Rooted
Cervantes
I Am Writer Am
Homer
Tolstoy
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Not a word that I have written about Yugoslavia is denounceable, not a single one. It is literature.
Peter Handke / Novelist
Literature
Single
Yugoslavia
Word
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Don Juan's story can have no end, and that, on my word, is the definitive and true story of 'Don Juan.'
Peter Handke / Novelist
Juan
True Story
Definitive
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Most older people don't talk about the past so they won't have to admit that their life ran on the wrong rail.
Peter Handke / Novelist
Older People
Rail
Life Past People
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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 / Novelist
Children
Knows
Soul
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I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature.
Peter Handke / Novelist
My Journey
Serbia
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I can't define myself. And I'm really happy about this, that I'm not able to make a definition of, even of my work.
Peter Handke / Novelist
Define
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I wrote about the Serbs, because no one was writing about them, even if I also think about the Croat and Muslim victims.
Peter Handke / Novelist
Muslim
Victims
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There are many kinds of truth. But truth communicated by beauty is the only pure one. The only one that touches me in the heart.
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Pure
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The biggest achievement is to create silence. I think every real writer who has a passion to do justice to the world thinks this way.
Peter Handke / Novelist
Achievement
Passion
Silence
Writer
Biggest
Thinks
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You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence, through words.
Peter Handke / Novelist
Silence
Silent
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I don't read my own books, but sometimes if there is a new edition I open it and then I feel this life of a writer was not so hopeless, not so bad.
Peter Handke / Novelist
Hopeless
Edition
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On my travels I, at least, did not see Serbia as a land of paranoiacs - much more as the huge room of an orphaned, yes, an orphaned, abandoned child.
Peter Handke / Novelist
Abandoned
Serbia
Orphaned
Travels
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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 / Novelist
History
Country
Who I Am
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The so-called world knows everything about Slobodan Milosevic. The so-called world knows the truth. But I don't know the truth. But I watch. I feel. I remember. I question.
Peter Handke / Novelist
Question
So-Called
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Morality is the least of my concerns. To me, morality in a society that - however moral its pose - is hierarchically organized is simply a lie, an alibi for the inequalities that exist in society.
Peter Handke / Novelist
Moral
Organized
Alibi
Concerns
Exist
Simply
Lie
However
Inequalities
Least
Pose
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