Quotes
Authors
Luis Bunuel

"I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation - that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno - I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!"

-- Luis Bunuel

#Work Quotes #Pigs Quotes #Honor Quotes

“During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone â€˜identifiedâ€™ me. Then a woman with lips blue with cold who was standing behind me, and of course had never heard of my name, came out of the numbness which affected us all and whispered in my earâ€”(we all spoke in whispers there): â€˜Could you describe this?â€™ I said, â€˜I can!â€™ Then something resembling a smile slipped over what had once been her face.”
“While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”

Source : "A Man Without a Country". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (pp. 102-103), September 15, 2005.
“All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!”
“There is an expression-walking with beauty. And I believe that this endless search for beauty in surroundings, in people and one's personal life, is the headstone of travel.”
“Discipline is doing within, while you do without.”
“I love jewelry - rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, you name it.”
“The state is the nursing mother of human culture.”
“Orthodox chanting is non-emotional, it's very monotone,”

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