"Where you are tender, you speak your plural."

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Roland Barthes

#Speak Quotes #Where You Are Quotes

“It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.”
“A duplicitous country with a duplicitous leadership is going to give us more duplicity. And that duplicity is going lead us off an abyss. That's going to happen.”
“Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.”
“Both angels and demons are ignorant of the future, yet they make predictions. The angels do so when God reveals the future to them and commands them to prophesy, and what they prophesy comes to pass. Demons also make predictions, but these are only guesses based on what they see from afar.”
“I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.”
“Every director is so different from every other one.”
“Nobody is all good or all bad.”
“Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere.”

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