"I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut- terin', or about them bein' off their nut."

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Source : "Schnozzola: The Story of Jimmy Durante". Book by Gene Fowler, 1951.

Jimmy Durante

#Hurt Quotes #Nuts Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The Berbers belong to a powerful, formidable, and numerous people; a true people like so many others, the world has seen - like the Arabs, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans.”

Source : "The Berbers". Book by Michael Brett and Elizabeth Fentress, Blackwell Publishing, p. 1, "Kitab al-Ibar", 1997.
“I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.”
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”

Source : Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.186, Anatole France
“Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.”
“My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.”
“Don't take too much credit for your children - or too much blame!”
“Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation.”

Source : "La voce di Rimini". September 11, 2003.
“Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everythingin every possible way. The reason for ensuring that that privileged arena is preserved is not that writers want the absolute freedom to say and do whatever they please. It is that we, all of us, readers and writers and citizens and generals and goodmen, need that little, unimportant-looking room. We do not need to call it sacred, but we do need to remember that it is necessary.”

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