Juan Rulfo Quotes
Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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I did anything that would get me on the air.
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.
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Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
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Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.
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I don't really talk about surgery, because I feel like no one should be judged on their journey.
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'Yes,' he said, 'intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn’t matter. A cancer growing in someone’s body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.'
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On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.
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Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.
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Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.
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I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
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I have been accused of not taking seriously the FA Cup on Saturday ... I have won four times the FA Cup. Who has won it more? Give me one name.
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No matter how loud you shout, you will not drown out the voice of the people!
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I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.
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Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.
