Quand un homme a un bec de canard, des ailes de canard et des pattes de canards: c’est un canard. C’est vrai aussi pour les petits merdeux.
Michel Audiard
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Quote for the week 28th Jan to 3rd Feb ’07
Love is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.
Emily Dickinson
Quote for the week 21st to 27th of Jan ’07
O poeta é um fingidor.
Finge tão completamente
Que chega a fingir que é dor
A dor que deveras sente.
E os que lêem o que escreve,
Na dor lida sentem bem,
Não as duas que ele teve,
Mas só a que eles não têm.
→ Read more Quote for the week 14th to 20th of Jan ’07
To see with one’s own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be able to express what one has seen and felt in a trim sentence or even in a cunningly wrought word- is that not glorious? → Read more
Quote for the week 7th to 13th of January ’07
…I was not meaning to suggest that people are dumb. There is such a thing as rational ignorance. It just does not pay most people to become well informed about how markets work.
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