Albert Camus Quotes

Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak.

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I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.
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I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.
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The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.
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I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.
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I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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There are very few great poets in the world.
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'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
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Nobody is original anymore. Nobody has any original style.
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.
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I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to make it big; those sucked. Then I started Makeout Videotape, and that was that.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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You can't force chemistry. It's either there or it's not. You can't create it.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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The old ways still apply. You can still send tapes to record companies, and there are record companies, you know, there are one or two of the record companies do declare proudly that they listen to every single one that comes.
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You have to listen to your own heart.
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Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak.