"Basque is one of the world's more alarming languages. Only a handful of adult foreigners, they say, have ever managed to learn it. The Devil tried once and mastered only three words - profanities, I assume."

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Jan Morris

#Devil Quotes #Adults Quotes #Three Quotes

“Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually see LOVE - not words, not an emotion, not an abstract concept or a subjective state of mind, but a living, breathing thing.”

Source : Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.103, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“One memory I have is there were a lot of dogs at this one place and my brother got in a horrific fight with a dog and the dog bit his toe off. They became fast friends after that. He lost a toe and gained a friend.”
“Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.”
“I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me.”
“The place of electronic music, culturally and socially, is today completely different - it is now everywhere, and it has been totally accepted. Consequently, there is now a younger generation that is more focused on making great electronic music, good parties, and having fun, where there is not any more so much need for cultural and ideological statements in electronic music itself.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.”
“There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families”
“Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.”

Source : Letter to Leon Goldensohn; from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, 2004, May 11, 1946.

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