"Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words."

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Source : Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.55, Penguin

Jean-Claude Izzo

#Pleasure Quotes

“History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.”
“That was a inch perfect pass to no one.”
“I've stayed true to my music and I sing heartfelt songs with a message.”
“The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.”
“I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant”

Source : Gregory Corso, “Writ On The Steps Of Puerto Rican Harlem”
“Before 2013, if you said the NSA was making records of everybody's phone calls and the [Government Communications Headquarters] was monitoring lawyers and journalists, people raised eyebrows and called you a conspiracy theorist. Those days are over.”
“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
“A Christian is something before he does anything; and we have to be Christian before we can act as Christians.”

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