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Michel Houellebecq [1956-0] French

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Michel Houellebecq is a French author, filmmaker, and poet. Having written poetry and a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, he published his first novel, Whatever, in 1994. Atomised followed in 1998, and Platform in 2001. He published a book of poems, The Art of Struggle, in 1996.

Attitude, Death, Morning, Poetry, Religion, Travel, Trust, Women

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I find it an absolute pleasure to read travel guides, especially the Michelin guides, and their description of places I know I'll probably never visit. I spend a large part of my life reading descriptions of restaurants.	Travel	101
Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.		102
Islam is a dangerous religion.	Religion	103
I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.		104
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.	Women	105
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.'	Morning	106
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.	Death	107
The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.	Trust	108
I think that there is a sharp contrast for most people between life at university, where they meet lots of people, and the moment when they enter the workforce, when they basically no longer meet anyone. Life becomes dull. So as a result people get married to have a personal life. I could elaborate but I think everyone understands.		109
When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.		110
I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.		111
Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.		112
The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.		113
My novels are all ideas.		114
There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.		115
I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.		116
I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.	Poetry	117
The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.		118
Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.		119
In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.		120
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.		121
Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.		122
You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude.	Attitude	123
I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.		124
The most stupid religion is Islam.		125
When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.		126
Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom, but the opposite. That's why I'm glad feminism is dead.		201
I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.		202
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.		203
I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.		204
Polemical debates happen all the time in France.		205

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