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Thomas Bidegain

"The great thing about Europe is that things have not been represented [as much]. If you open the door of a bar in Brooklyn in a film you know exactly who is the mobster, who is the nice guy, who is the drunk, who's the waitress, who's the lonely heart. If you push open the door to a bar in Antwerp or Lisbon or Rotterdam, people will talk five different languages. You don't know who's who. You don't know if that guy is a banker or a mobster."

-- Thomas Bidegain

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“Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?”

Source : Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Double Garden: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.73, 谷月社
“I didn't understand that you could go to jail for the rest of your life for selling cocaine. I thought life sentences were for murderers. I didn't know that you could get it for supplying something to someone that they asked you for.”
“Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million.”
“Insure the uninsured. Effect of Obamacare to date: Uninsure the insured,”
“See, I can talk to the pretty man like a real grown up if I try hard enough.”
“At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the abstract branches of science, mathematics and theoretical physics, which ... offer a less distorted form of knowledge than other branches of science which are interwoven with the pattern of daily life, and the practicality of which seemingly testifies to their realistic character.”
“Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.”
“If you want nothing, do what you want. If you want everything, develop discipline”

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