Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world. Michel Houellebecq More Quotes by Michel Houellebecq More Quotes From Michel Houellebecq Last election shows that there's a big discrepancy between two parts of the country. That discrepancy also exists in France, but we've had the National Front for forty years, and it only took Trump one year to get elected. Very fast. That's the surprising thing. In France we thought everybody liked Obama, but maybe the media were lying. Maybe they didn't. Michel Houellebecq election country lying As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television. Michel Houellebecq teenager suffering people There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind. Michel Houellebecq changing-my-mind asking mind This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of those unbridled passions, stretching over many years, and at times making their effect felt on several generations? We’re a long way from Wuthering Heights, to say the least. The novel form is not conceived for depicting indifference or nothingness; a flatter, more terse, and dreary discourse would need to be invented. Michel Houellebecq passion long years If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one. Michel Houellebecq illusion painful life-is I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it was true, and the revelation caused me no surprise, it was like the echo of a dull, not unexpected shock. The age difference was the last taboo, the final limit, all the stronger for the fact that it remained the last and had replaced all the others. In the modern world you could be a swinger, bi, trans, zoo into S&M, but it was forbidden to be old. Michel Houellebecq echoes zoos thinking I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke. Michel Houellebecq advertising computer world The triumph of vegetation is total. Michel Houellebecq vegetation triumph Polemical debates happen all the time in France. Michel Houellebecq debate france happens My novels are all ideas. Michel Houellebecq novel ideas Islam is a dangerous religion. Michel Houellebecq islam dangerous In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little. Michel Houellebecq writing littles thinking Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic. Michel Houellebecq garden reality years I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip of a fury, needing to act, yet can do nothing about it because any attempt seems doomed in advance. Failure, everywhere failure. Only suicide hovers above me, gleaming and inaccessible. Michel Houellebecq glasses suicide fall I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely. Michel Houellebecq difficult thinking I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it. Michel Houellebecq speak real thinking On Sunday morning I went out for a while in the neighbourhood; I bought some raisin bread. The day was warm but a little sad, as Sundays often are in Paris, especially when one doesn't believe in God. Michel Houellebecq sunday morning believe When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers. Michel Houellebecq pessimism strong country Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult. Michel Houellebecq parent father years I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn't think, just to shock. I try to say what I think. Michel Houellebecq real trying thinking
