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As for my working habits, I like the idea of perfection. If a thing is not right it is done over and over again.


Erich Wolfgang Korngold

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I answered with the term I'd always...
ERICH SEGAL There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.
ERICH SEGAL Her handwriting was curious — small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she wa...
ERICH SEGAL You don't know about falling off cliffs, Prep­pie,' she said. 'You never fell off one in your god­...
ERICH SEGAL Now would you do me a favor?' From somewhere inside me came this devastating assault to make me cry....
ERICH SEGAL He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment.
"Which one is that?" I...
ERICH SEGAL What the hell makes you so smart?" I asked. "I wouldn't go for coffee with you, " she answered. "Lis...
ERICH SEGAL He would not question Barretto's love, since to know Jenny is to love Jenny; it's a universal truth
ERICH SEGAL Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being.
ERICH FROMM It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings pro...
ERICH FROMM I've been performing since I was very little, about three years old. I was inspired at first by ...
ERICH BERGEN Der Autor (...) sieht, daß die Zeitgenossen, störrisch wie die Esel, rückwärts laufen, einem kla...
ERICH KäSTNER To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become despera...
ERICH FROMM There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM