Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) Quotes
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.
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Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.
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Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
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No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace.
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Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.
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The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
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Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.
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I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.
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I think the big evolutionary step for me is directing my own movies.
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Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.
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There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
