“…I do not want you to believe any of this because it is all crap, but it is the crap in which the piles of our psuedo-European culture are embedded, so you had better understand it because no one who does not understand the history and taxonomy of crap will ever come to know the difference between crap and pseudocrap… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share
“... so many nominal Christians throughout history, took no notice whatsoever of the key parable of Jesus Christ himself, which taught that… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
“Where does it all begin? History has no beginnings, for everything that happens becomes the cause or pretext for what occurs afterwards,… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
“Eventually, in an historic feat of compromise, democracy was restored by the abolition of elections..” — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
It's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are hundreds of… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
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. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share
Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected? — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Your lips are like sugar And your cheeks an apple Your breasts are paradise And your body a lily. O, to kiss the sugar… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
“Pelagia put her hands on her hips, taking advantage of the superiority implicit in the fact that she was standing and he lying down.” — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
