Cesare Pavese Quotes
Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.
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I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
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You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.
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Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.
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Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.
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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
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Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
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Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?
