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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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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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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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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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.
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The solidarity of all progressive forces of the world towards the people of Vietnam today is similar to the bitter irony of the plebeians coaxing on the gladiators in the Roman arena. It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory.
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We live in a sensate age. We are no longer governed by Faith, we are no longer governed by reason. We are governed by feelings.
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So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.
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No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.
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...Night has chosen thee; thy death will be thy birth. Night calls to thee; harken to Her sweet voice. Your destiny awaits you at the House of Night.
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I'm obsessed with being human.
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Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings.
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Every soldier is an enemy.
