Quotes about Paulo Coelho, page 2

When you lack expert knowledge in a field, and you can't understand the peculiarities of the words, it is better to keep your mouth shut. The risk of appearing ridiculous is directly proportional to the number of words you utter.

Paulo Coelho in interview in Época Magazine (1990), translated by Dan Costinaş
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For a night? Now come on, Maria, you’re exaggerating. It’s really only forty-five minutes, and if you allow time for taking off clothes, making some phoney gesture of affection, having a bit of banal conversation and getting dressed again, the amount of time spent actually having sex is about eleven minutes.

Paulo Coelho in Eleven Minutes (2003), translated by Margaret Jull Costa
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Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best children's stories begin, and "prostitute" is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction?

Paulo Coelho in Eleven Minutes (2003), translated by Margaret Jull Costa
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She would never see him again, but, for a few hours, in the autumn of her despair, she had ceased to be a faithful wife, housewife, loving mother, exemplary public servant and constant friend, and reverted to being simply a woman.

Paulo Coelho in Eleven Minutes (2003), translated by Margaret Jull Costa
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