"Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!"

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Source : "As 30 melhores entrevistas da Playboy: agosto 1975-agosto 2005" by Luiz Rivoiro, (p. 132), 2005.

Nelson Rodrigues

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“Why hasn't anyone opened a night club named 'No Drugs Allowed, Wink, Wink'?”
“Without the concentration of the mind and the will, performance would not result.”
“Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope. [. . .] Barack Hussein Obama did not win because of the color of his skin. Nor did he win in spite of it. He won because at a very dangerous moment in the life of a still young country, more people than have ever spoken before came together to try to save it. And that was a victory all its own.”

Source : "The Courtier Chronicles". www.weeklystandard.com. November 17, 2008.
“Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.”
“Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.”

Source : 1873 'Conclusion' in Studies in the History of the Renaissance.
“With a horror movie, you dont want to anticipate where things are going to go.”
“When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself in the place of the alien rather than describing it from an outside point of view.”

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“Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.”

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