Tadeusz Borowski Quotes
And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to endure a day without a book, without the circle of light under the parafin lamp in the evening, without a sheet of paper, without you. . . .
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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The act of focusing our mightiest intellectual resources on the elusive goal of goto-less programs has helped us get our minds off all those really tough and possibly unresolvable problems and issues with which today's professional programmer would otherwise have to grapple.
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Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.
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When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.
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And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to endure a day without a book, without the circle of light under the parafin lamp in the evening, without a sheet of paper, without you. . . .
