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We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.


Erich Hoeber

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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 Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
ERICH FROMM The mood is shit. Everybody's feeling down because of yesterday, it was crazy.
ERICH WAGNER As a coach he won't have talked just about the weather.
ERICH WAGNER