Louis de Bernieres quotes

Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world. (Louis de Bernieres)

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

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How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world.

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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.

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Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

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[She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.

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We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.

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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.

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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.

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What keeps me going is my children.

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When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life. (Louis de Bernieres)

Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.

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Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

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History is the propaganda of the victors.

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Your lips are like sugar And your cheeks an apple Your breasts are paradise And your body a lily. O, to kiss the sugar To bite the apple To reveal paradise And open the lily.

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Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.

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Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you've got is the dough.

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People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

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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.

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Me? I'm not lazy, I'm just passionate about leisure.

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When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are to become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No ... don't blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love; which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away. Doesn't sound very exciting, does it? But it is! (Louis de Bernieres)

Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy.

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The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

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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.

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Occupation: British Novelist
Born: December 8, 1954
Quotes count: 24

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