Louis de Bernieres Professions : NovelistBorn : December 8, 1954 Browse All Authors Top 45 quotes by Louis de Bernieres Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal. Louis de Bernieres sublimebeautifulreality Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected? Louis de Bernieres childhoodexpectedinsanity Love delayed is lust augmented. Louis de Bernieres delayedlust Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. Louis de Bernieres sad-loveliterature-historylove-is The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it Louis de Bernieres gardenflowerneeds History is the propaganda of the victors. Louis de Bernieres anarchypropagandahistory It's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are hundreds of millions of human beings in the world, and God knows how many millions of people long dead who have been lost to history, all of whom were probably special to someone. Louis de Bernieres stupidlongpeople Symmetry is for God, not for us. Louis de Bernieres symmetry Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality. Louis de Bernieres mpsgiving-uplaw Money has no religion except itself. Louis de Bernieres Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms. Louis de Bernieres symptomskindlove-is God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart. Louis de Bernieres religiousgodheart We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other. Louis de Bernieres killing-each-othercareideas The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier. Louis de Bernieres militarysoldierfather So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair. Louis de Bernieres lawfatherchildren Women only nag when they feel unappreciated. Louis de Bernieres being-appreciatedwomenfeels An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so. Louis de Bernieres couplelawimpossible In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones. Louis de Bernieres motherfatherchildren It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much. Louis de Bernieres nightmarecontentmentneeds What keeps me going is my children. Louis de Bernieres my-childrenchildren Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelistAll Authors
