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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Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.
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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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If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what you did, if you were incarcerated or you are from the projects, if you are an uppity kid who came from a really wealthy family - and all of them do drugs and are into that life - it doesn't matter; come as you are, and God does his work.
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
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One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me.
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Information impactedness is a derivative condition that arises mainly because of uncertainty and opportunism, though bounded rationality is involved as well. It exists when true underlying circumstances relevant to the transaction, or related set of transactions, are known to one or more parties but cannot be costlessly discerned by or displayed for others.
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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
