Stefano Benni Quotes

#1. Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.

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#2. Destiny cuts
the cake of love,
Three slices to some,
To others, a crumb.

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#3. The cab smelled like curry, cigarettes, and body odor, and the safety glass between me and the driver had cracks in it.

J.A. Konrath

#4. If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever.

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#5. In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.

E. O. Wilson

#6. [T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.

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#7. The body slows with mortal ache ,
yet my promise remains true at the closing of our days ,
A tender touch that ends with a kiss
will awaken love in joyous ways

Nicholas Sparks

#8. The winter was blasting its cold winds of dire portent into the tender face of springtime.

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#9. Oh, my father sighs, if only we had a screwdriver that could unscrew wrongheaded ideas; if only we had a hammer to drive home good intentions; if only we had a pipe wrench to tighten hearts in everlasting love; a saw that we could use to make a clean cut with the past!

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#10. Sides, i don't like the posed pics.They're not the real person.They're a reflection of what the person wants the world to think of her-not what she really is.

Rachel Hawthorne

#11. In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

George Andrew Olah

#12. No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern.

Cesare Pavese

#13. A person who is obsessed with Jesus is more concerned with his or her character than comfort. Obsessed people know that true joy doesn't depend on circumstances or environment; it is a gift that must be chosen and cultivated, a gift that ultimately comes from God (James 1:2-4).

Francis Chan

#14. [M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however. These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. There are times in life that are very but however.

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#15. When I'm in love, I can't stand anyone.

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#16. From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!

Michael Foreman

#17. That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.

Stefano Benni