Frederic Louis Sauser (Blaise Cendrars) Quotes
One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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I had so many faux-parents.
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We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
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I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
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My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.
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I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.
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I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.
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We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.
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To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over... What you first gain from them is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you 'line up' your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instil, and modify to some slight degree their mass.
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When I look back on the past two decades of my journey today, I guess many people would interpret my artistic practice as a kind of cross-media attempt. I have indeed tried many different kinds of media over the past 20 years and collaborated in many different ways with people from many different fields. However, I like to understand this process as a kind of compensation for having once lost my "right of choice," an exercise of free choice and taking responsibility for any consequences that might result from it. To be honest, it's a bit of a paranoid act.
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One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away.
