Philipp Meyer Quotes

• The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior toward acquired knowledge. A half-grown panther abandoned in the wilderness will grow up to be a perfectly normal panther. But a half-grown child similarly abandoned will grow up into an unrecognizable savage, unfit for normal society. Yet there are those who insist the opposite: that we are creatures of instinct, like wolves.

  Philipp Meyer

  Children, Growing Up, Animal

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• Give a small number of people the power to enrich themselves beyond everyone's wildest dreams, a philosophical rationale to explain all the damage they're causing, and they will not stop until they've run the world economy off a cliff.

  Philipp Meyer

  Running, Dream, Philosophical

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• When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.

  Philipp Meyer

  Native American, People, Peaceful

  "Philipp Meyer on 'The Son'". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. June 8, 2013.

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• Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

  Philipp Meyer

  Art, Get Better

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• Nos mudamos a Baltimore, Maryland, en 1979, cuando yo tenía cinco años. Lo curioso es que, aunque Baltimore tenía una de las tasas de homicidio más altas del país en aquella época, crecí oyendo hablar de lo peligrosa que era New York.

  Philipp Meyer

  Country, New York, Funny Things

  Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.

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• If no one heard your sounds then you did not really make them.

  Philipp Meyer

  Sound, Heard, Ifs

  Philipp Meyer (2009). “American Rust”, p.353, Simon and Schuster

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• When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

  Philipp Meyer

  Novel, Deals, Rail

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• When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have to aggressively find ways to occupy myself; going off into the woods alone, doing things that are physically or mentally demanding to keep myself busy until the next big idea comes.

  Philipp Meyer

  Book, Ideas, Woods

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• You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If Id listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.

  Philipp Meyer

  Believe, Years, People

  "Philipp Meyer: 'We don't have a good context for where we come from as Americans'" by Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2013.

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• At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.

  Philipp Meyer

  School, Years, Volunteer

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• Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

  Philipp Meyer

  Jobs, Community, Down And

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• My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

  Philipp Meyer

  Writing, Years, Two

  Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.

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• Se preguntaba cómo la recordaría la gente. No había hecho lo suficiente para repartir su riqueza como Carnegie, para borrar cualquier pecado que hubiera unido a su nombre, había fracasado, no había alcanzado la rama dorada. Los liberales aplaudirían su muerte. Encenderían cigarrillos de marihuana y conducirían hasta sus restaurantes de sushi y comerían comida fresca que había viajado ocho mil millas. Se pasarían toda la cena quejándose de gente como ella, y cuando llegaran a casa sus casas estarían frías y pulsarían un botón en una pared para calentarse. Todo el tiempo quejándose de las grandes petroleras.

  Philipp Meyer

  Cheer, Wall, Home

  "The Son". Book by Philipp Meyer, 2013.

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• No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.

  Philipp Meyer

  Land, Earth, Honestly

  Philipp Meyer (2013). “The Son”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen.

  Philipp Meyer

  Growing Up, Able, Hell

  Philipp Meyer (2009). “American Rust”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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