A Quote by Javier Marías

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

Javier Marías

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Javier Marías
Spanish - Novelist
Born: September 20, 1951

We will rise above the lies, the smears, the ludicrous slanders from ludicrous and very, very dishonest reporters.

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The reason my games are chaotic is that the world is chaotic, not me. I don't aim for bad endings - they just naturally come out.

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Devin Townsend

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E. L. Doctorow

I just want my name back so my life can go back to chaotic and weird instead of chaotic and desperate.

Kim Harrison

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Cynthia Ozick

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Andre Gide

When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.

Ingmar Bergman

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.

Minoru Yamasaki

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.