Alessandro Baricco Quotes
Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
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For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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Zef is like dirt, it's like scum. There was no zef movement before we came along.
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A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.
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Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
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I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.
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I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.
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I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if they are married, and indeed, I repeat, if they are formally married as opposed to simply living together.
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Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.
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Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that she was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time.
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I am my world. (The microcosm.) (5.63)
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It doesn’t matter, she thought, and realized in spite of everything, horror after horror, Roche still believed in God. He had been going to the church to say matins when he found the steward, and if they all died, he would go on saying them and not find anything incongruous in his prayers.
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C'est d'actes et non d'idées que vivent les peuples.
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Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.
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Because his task was not finished, I felt that I must re-dedicate myself to the completion of his work.
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Shortly afterwards my father told me that he might be going into the Eastern Zone of Germany. At that time my own mind was closer to his than it had ever been before, because he also believed that they are at least trying to build a new world.
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Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.
