Eugenio Montale Quotes
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
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We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
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I have been a member of the Microsoft-bashing society for quite some time.
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The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
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Ever since I was little, I've always liked to smash things.
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Myth is the nothing that is everything.
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I walk along the city streets you used to walk along with me,And every step I take recalls how much in love we used to be.Oh, how can I forget you?When there is always something there to remind me
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Men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness. That state is most fortunate in its form of government which has the aptest instruments for the discovery of law.
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My main ambition is to be of use to my country and my people.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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George Clooney and Brad Pitt, with those 'Oceans' films they do, they get to work together, make a whole lot of money, and make a major film statement. Imagine if once a year, myself, Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, James Earl Jones, we did some relevant film together to make a statement.
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I think that when you use the word 'plus-size,' you're putting all these women in a category: 'You don't eat well.' 'You don't work out.' 'You could care less about your body.' 'You're insecure.' 'You have no confidence.'
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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
