Erno Paasilinna Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
-
I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
-
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
-
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.
-
Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Listening is self-empowerment via the empowerment of others.
-
Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
-
Lies run sprints but the truth runs marathons.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
-
As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such.
-
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.
-
Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.
-
A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.
-
As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something.
-
A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.
-
If the enemy cannot make you BAD, he’ll make you BUSY.
-
Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major dramatized event.
-
My parents are both musicians and made sure we all played music. My brothers and sisters all play instruments, so we'll get together whenever we can and play. We play a lot of classical music - you know, the good stuff.
-
As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.
-
Every soldier is an enemy.
