Pierre Mac Orlan famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere.
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There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world
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[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)
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Adventure does not exist. It exists only in the mind of the man who pursues it, and as soon as his fingers graze it, it vanishes to appear much further off, in another form, at the limits of the imagination.
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The greatest field of photography, for the literary interpretation of life, consists, to my mind, in its latent power to create, as it were, death for a single second. Any thing or person is, at will, made to die for a moment of time so immeasurably small that the return to life is effected without consciousness of the great adventure. (1928)
-- Pierre Mac Orlan
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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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When a friend, then, indulges in the joy unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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