Jean-Claude Izzo famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.
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The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.
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Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words.
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I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner.
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Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a place where you have to take sides, be passionately for or against. Only then can you see what there is to see. And you realize, too late, that you're in the middle of a tragedy. An ancient tragedy in which the hero is death. In Marseilles, even to lose you have to know how to fight.
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I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry
-- Jean-Claude Izzo
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I never imagined anyone like you, Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you, I’m humbled that you chose me.
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His time's forever, everywhere his place.
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If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.
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Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
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There is only one way to receive transmission. When I tell you something, do it immediately, without the least wavering thought. That's it. Learn. Open your heart and act. Thought stops action. It perverts it into calculated gesture stripped of grace and efficiency.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?
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When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.
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I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.
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