Cesare Pavese Quotes
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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When I see other working actresses that are brown, I get so excited. I get so excited when I see Zoe Kravitz, Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, Ava Duvernay, and all these beautiful women working.
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I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.
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It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.
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The only thing we're allowed to is to believe that we won't regret the choice we made.
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(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.
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I really want this for her. I can't imagine me wanting something more personally as I want her to get this award.
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Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.
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Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.
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There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone.
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Never let your love to be defined by your ex’s.
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Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?
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I have no delusions that I'm the only source of improving people's lives or that I'm even the right source. My style is intense, and it's not going to be right for everybody.
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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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Part of our job, together, is to work to reject such extremism that infects too many of our young people. Part of that effort must be a continued rejection by Muslims of those who distort Islam to preach intolerance and promote violence, and it must also a rejection by non-Muslims of the ignorance that equates Islam with terror.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
