Quotes About Metier

Through writing, one experiences something different to what one experiences with the five senses one has because language is a different metier.

Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")

I have associated myself with failed scientists in order to associate myself with failed irony. ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")

Propaganda mainly tells us that Bernays's true métier was to help giant players with their various sales and image problems.

and then in the twenty-first year it suddenly transpires that Roman law is a complete waste of time, that he not only doesn't understand it and dislikes it too, but that he is really a born gardener and has an unquenchable love of flowers. This is presumably the result of some imperfection in our social system, which seems to ensure that people frequently only find their proper metier towards the end of their lives.