"And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance."

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Source : Pier Paolo Pasolini, Norman MacAfee, Luciano Martinengo (1982). “Poems”, New York : Random House

Pier Paolo Pasolini

#Light Quotes #World Quotes #Resistance Quotes

“I like suits. I mean, I always feel good in a suit; I'm more of a suit guy than a shirt-and-jeans-type guy, probably. You know, like, I love Brad Goresky's style. And sometimes he'll wear a pair of, like, leopard pants, and I'm like, I couldn't pull that off, but I appreciate it from afar.”
“If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.”
“many rules could be made for the giving of orders. Don't preach when you give orders. Don't discuss matters already settled unless you have fresh data. Make your direction so specific that there will be no question whether they have been obeyed or not. Find out how to give directions and yet to allow people opportunity for independent thinking, for initiative. And so on and so on. Order-giving requires just as much study and just as much training as any other skill we wish to acquire.”
“The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.”
“Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.”
“I was always talking in weird voices from the time I was two. I guess I just found a way to keep doing it! I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes... but most of it is just the same stuff I was doing as a kid!”
“Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.”
“There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes; that place is, of course, the world of dreams and of the repressed guilts and fears that motivate them [i.e., the unconscious]. This world the dogmatic optimism and shallow psychology of the Age of Reason had denied; and yet this world it is the final, perhaps the essential, purpose of the gothic romance to assert.”

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