Johan Fundin Quotes

“Everybody has multiple personalities—at least three. We’re one person at work, another person in private, and a third person when we appear in polite society.”

“The writer’s job is to arouse emotions. The stronger the emotions the better.”

“A novelist must believe he can outdo himself. Or his creative drive would die.”

“Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.”

“History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.”

“History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.”

“Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.”

“An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.”

“In today's society conformity is more of a necessity than an option.”

“To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent.”