Alessandro Baricco Quotes
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
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Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
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For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
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I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.
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One of the reasons for me that there's no 'Spaced 3' is that I don't think you can pretend to be 26 for ever.
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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.
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No matter how successful the remake is, it seems to me it's forgotten quickly after and it's the original that still lives on.
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
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The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.
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I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.
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It was at a certain stage (you might have forgotten, haven't you?) that the United States actively collaborated with Saddam when he was at war with Iran: weapons were supplied, diplomatic and political support was provided and so on. Then the US fell out with him for some reason and decided to do away with him.
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The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.
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It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.
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Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.
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My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.
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An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.
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A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.
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There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.
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I want people to suffer less, and I think it's possible.
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The corn is planted first, followed by beans, then squash between the rows.They are called the Three Sisters. They sustain each other, the earth, and us. But the Big Ones do not know that. They do not care for the earth, and its children, properly.
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Reasons get forgotten.
