5 Thomas Berger Quotes for His Birthday

Happy Birthday Thomas Berger! As the author of Little Big Man and Arthur Rex, here are five of his most popular quotes to celebrate his birthday.

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Happy Birthday, Thomas Berger! As the author of many great American novels like Little Big Man, Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel, and Crazy in Berlin, here are five of his most popular quotes to celebrate his birthday.

 

 

“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.”

 

“The buffalo eats grass, I eat him, and when I die, the earth eats me and sprouts more grass. Therefore nothing is ever lost, and each thing is everything forever, though all things move.” – Little Big Man

 

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“Most of the people I have really cared about in this world, I have elected to the position. I have a belief that a man’s real relatives are scattered throughout the universe, and seldom if ever belong to his immediate kin.” – Little Big Man

 

“Believe me, the real romantic person is him who ain’t done anything but imagine. If you have actually participated in disasters, like me, you get conservative.” – Little Big Man

 

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“Privilege is founded on duty, and if the horse carries the man, the animal is fed before the rider himself doth eat. Thus in certain respects the first comes last, and the greatest king is the loneliest.” – Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel

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