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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.


Quentin Crisp

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SABBAH Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
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OLIVER BOWDEN Nothing is proved, all is permitted.
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GEORGES BERNANOS A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed f...
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GEORGES BERNANOS There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
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BLAISE PASCAL He ne'er presumed to make an error clearer;-- In short, there never was a better hearer.
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QUENTIN TARANTINO My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a ...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea...
QUENTIN TARANTINO The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzli...
QUENTIN BRYCE In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at....
QUENTIN TARANTINO I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I've always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
QUENTIN TARANTINO Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
QUENTIN TARANTINO The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey ...
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