Zitat des Tages über Abgestoßen / Repelled:
I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.
For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.
