Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

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• I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

  

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• The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

  

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• There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

  

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• Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

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• What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

  

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• I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
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• There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'

  

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• The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
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• Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

  

  Walt Whitman
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• We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem.

  

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• There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

  

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• Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

  

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• There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.

  

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• Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.

  

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• No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.

  

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• There are many people like me who believe firmly, if somewhat incoherently, that pockets on this planet are filled with what humans have left behind them, both good and evil, and that any such spiritual accumulation can stay there forever, past definition of such a stern word.

  

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• For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknowing nowhere, this time and again for always to nowhere, now not to be borne once again always and to nowhere, now beyond all bearing up, up, up and into nowhere, suddenly, scaldingly, holdingly all nowhere gone and time absolutely still and they were both there, time having stopped and he felt the earth move out and away from under them.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
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• I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

  

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• There is nothing quite like 'The Night of the Hunter'. I have never seen a film to which it can be fairly compared.

  

  Douglas McGrath
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  • Quite
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• Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Society
  • Solitude
  • Aspirations

• Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Forever
  • Nothing
  • Lasts