Alfred Capus Quotes

Idiots have always been exploited, and this is only right. The day they cease to be, they will triumph, and the world will be lost.

Alfred Capus

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• My books have occasionally been of mixed success. It's not like I have gone from triumph to triumph. I have had a couple of books do very, very well and a couple do very, very badly.

  

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• I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

  

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• Hungry for both fantasy and inspiration, readers crave protagonists who, after overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, triumph at the end of the day.

  

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• More idiots should just shut their mouths.

  

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• Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
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• The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy?

  

  Alan Rickman
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• And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

  

  Alan Rickman
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• Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Alone
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• Only idiots repeat failure, and that's what's been happening there.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Failure
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• Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

  

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• Usually the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty

  

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• Iraq will triumph and with Iraq will our Arab nation and mankind also triumph.

  

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• All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

  

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• Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• Conduct your triumph as a funeral.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.

  

  Blaise Pascal
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• That’s what history is, really,” Bianca says, “the process for turning idiots into visionaries.

  

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• I shave my head & shape my beard myself

  

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• What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?

  

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  • Life
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• There's so much spectating going on that a lot of us never get around to living.

  

  Russell Baker
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• I do feel like especially nowadays, we are inundated with the message that, "Oh my god, you aren't making your own clothes? You didn't make your own bread? And you also don't have a career and you don't look unbelievable and you have 5 pounds on your frame? Where is your book that you haven't published yet?"

  

  Miriam Shor
  • Careers
  • Pounds
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• Idiots have always been exploited, and this is only right. The day they cease to be, they will triumph, and the world will be lost.

  

  Alfred Capus
  • Triumph
  • Idiots
  • Exploited