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Michel Houellebecq
French
Author
Born:
Feb 26
,
1956
Am
Life
Me
People
Think
You
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The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.
Michel Houellebecq
Love
You
Trust
Dog
Pure
Must
Total
Betray
Gives
He
Which
Thing
Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Michel Houellebecq
History
Change
People
World
Important
Active
Change The World
Ideas
Napoleon
Than
Less
World History
Profoundly
I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.
Michel Houellebecq
Women
Would
Like
Because
Am
Exhausting
Lot
Very
Bodybuilding
Muscles
Polemical debates happen all the time in France.
Michel Houellebecq
Time
France
Debates
Happen
A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.
Michel Houellebecq
Life
Me
Society
State
Everything
Books
Possibility
Someone
Previous
Individual
Never
Reactionary
Well
Return
Irreversible
Wants
Who
Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.
Michel Houellebecq
Me
Think
Those
Simply
Know
Lacking
Information
Who
The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.
Michel Houellebecq
Country
Stupid
Single
Higher
Intellectual
Than
America
American
Any
European
Level
My novels are all ideas.
Michel Houellebecq
Ideas
Novels
I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.
Michel Houellebecq
You
Writing
World
Reading
Rich
Nothing
Changes
Except
Absolutely
Absolutely Nothing
Course
Makes
Prefer
View
Your
World View
There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.
Michel Houellebecq
Me
Mind
Changing
General
No Point
Point
Because
Always
Am
Questions
Asking
The most stupid religion is Islam.
Michel Houellebecq
Religion
Stupid
Islam
Most
Islam is a dangerous religion.
Michel Houellebecq
Religion
Dangerous
Islam
You know, you don't have to have permanent opinions. You can think, every morning, 'I love the world' and go to bed every night thinking, 'I hate the world.'
Michel Houellebecq
Love
Morning
You
Hate
World
Every
Think
Thinking
Know
Permanent
Opinions
Bed
Go
Every Night
Night
In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.
Michel Houellebecq
Myself
Writing
Own
Think
Exaggerate
My Own
Realist
Little
Who
I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.
Michel Houellebecq
Death
Good
Character
Good And Evil
People
Evil
Think
Moral
Moral Character
Unchangeable
Tend
Until
Quantity
Exist
Fixed
Us
Each
Set
I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.
Michel Houellebecq
Religion
Live
Difficult
Think
Definitely
More
Without
The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.
Michel Houellebecq
Great
You
Whatever
Shape
Put
Head
Advantage
Brain
Same
Human
Human Brain
Your
Novel
Great Advantage
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