"The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men."

-- Alfred de Vigny

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“Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.”
“Personally I don't like labels: Brazil is huge and each part has its own specifics. Of course the climate influences how people dress, but even climate can be completely different in different parts of the country here. Like any other part of the world, jeans, T-shirt and sneakers are the uniform for kids in the big cities. As the streetwear scene evolves, people get more connected to global brands, thanks to Internet.”
“Art happens all the time, everywhere. All we have to do is to keep our minds open.”

Source : "Les Krantz". The New York Art Review, 1988.
“I would rather not work than play in a movie that nobody watches.”
“It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.”
“If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”
“In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so far as facts conceal ideas: facts without ideas are just the sweepings of the brain and the memory.”
“Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box”

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