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 reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
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I'm obsessed with being human.
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I don't want to sing boring pop songs – I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.
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Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.
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Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus the sin of having caused the fall of the human race. Woman thou art the gate of the devil. It is thou who hast corrupted those whom Satan dare not attack face to face.
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Every soldier is an enemy.
