Boris Vian Quotes

#1. Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.

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#2. Humor is the politeness of despair.

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#3. Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.

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#4. The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

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#5. Procrastination is a prelude in a minor key.

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#6. The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.

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#7. Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.

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#8. People don't change. Things do.

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#9. Nobody knew me at Buckton. Clem had chosen the town because of that; and besides, even if I had wimp out, there was not enough gas to help me going further north. - I spit on your graves ,

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#10. I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

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#11. I'm not interested in the happiness of all men, but only in the happiness of each.

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#12. Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people. What's the point in moving mountains when it's so simple to climb over them?

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#13. There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

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#14. Rien n'est plus parfait, plus acheve qu'un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse.

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#15. One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.

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