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I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.


Jacques Barzun

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MARTIN JACQUES The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama w...
MARTIN JACQUES The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judg...
JACQUES VERGES Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people w...
JACQUES LACAN My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist...
JACQUES DELORS I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.
BRIAN JACQUES I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.
JACQUES DERRIDA It's the first time I've seen any of my work done like this,
BRIAN JACQUES I suppose there's a child inside me who wants to get out, ... A little baldy child with a beard. Ha!
BRIAN JACQUES I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning, ... Who ever thought I'd be a children's author --...
BRIAN JACQUES Ah, 'tis a good strong yarn, about the sea, and all the legends that surround it,
BRIAN JACQUES I use animals native to Great Britain, ... The animals have human traits, like the mole is a tiny, f...
BRIAN JACQUES Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human, ... They know what a 'dirty rat' is.
BRIAN JACQUES Any time I go into anything like this, I make sure, before I ever put pen to paper, that I've got th...
BRIAN JACQUES Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious ins...
JACQUES LACAN I admired Margaret Thatcher - while abhorring much of what she offered - because she was so clearly ...
MARTIN JACQUES The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the do...
JACQUES DERRIDA We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their...
JACQUES MARITAIN The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in th...
JACQUES ELLUL Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation God is always present, always available. At...
JACQUES ELLUL The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
JACQUES CHIRAC The finest amusements are the most pointless ones.
JACQUES CHARDONNE I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, wher...
JACQUES AUDIARD It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat,
JACQUES AUDIARD The Beat That My Heart Skipped,
JACQUES AUDIARD He was more interested in having a discussion on Proust than on Welles,
JACQUES AUDIARD I am putting an artist within the reach of wallets in all legality, and I am extending his fame.
JACQUES ATTALI François Mitterrand was the last king of France. France today is no longer a truly i...
JACQUES ATTALI It is a modest budget. We wish to start with a small amount.
JACQUES ATTALI The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be ...
JACQUES LACAN As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along ...
JACQUES LACAN Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my...
JACQUES DERRIDA For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence...
JACQUES ELLUL The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russ...
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