Cesare Pavese Quotes
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.
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Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.
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I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.
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All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.
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If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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The migratory phenomenon exists, and Europe will have to face it together. The only alternative is a 'beggar-thy-neighbor' solution, in which countries try to load the problem off on their neighbors.
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You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
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At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.
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Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.
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I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
