Erno Paasilinna Quotes
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
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It is not the 'greatness,' the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
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Listening is self-empowerment via the empowerment of others.
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Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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Lies run sprints but the truth runs marathons.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.
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It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.
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Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
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As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such.
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The 'Station to Station' film has been fascinating to create. It feels as though it made itself in a way, and after awhile, the film told us what it needed and began to sculpt itself.
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Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.
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A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.
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The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.
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My favorite movies are the ones that are different the second time, or where you're constantly discovering new things. It's not just genre movies, either, and it's not just about twists. I saw 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' four times in the theater before I realized it's a love story. I love that.
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He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.
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We know how difficult it is to do something that works and that you feel proud of. When it happens, it's like a miracle.
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Every soldier is an enemy.
