Quotes - Sebastian Rotella (Chevy Chase, MD) Showing 1-30 of 99

#1

“Tell the story of your village. If you tell it well, you will have told the story of the world.”
― Andrea Camilleri

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#2

“La sicurezza del potere si fonda sull'insicurezza dei cittadini.”
― Leonardo Sciascia, Il cavaliere e la morte

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#3

“Dans ce vaste pays qu’il avait tant aimé, il était seul.”
― Albert Camus, Exile and the Kingdom

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#4

“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.”
― Raymond Chandler

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#5

“The game is afoot.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Abbey Grange - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

tags: shakespearean, sherlock-holmes

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#6

“-Dice que si no le sacas la muela te pega un tiro.
Sin apresurarse, con un movimiento extremadamente tranquilo, dejó de pedalear en la fresa, la retiró del sillón y abrió por completo la gaveta inferior de la mesa. Allí estaba el revólver.
-Bueno -dijo-. Dile que venga a pegármelo.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Leaf Storm and Other Stories

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#7

“He lived in the Hotel Coma--named perhaps for some founder of the town, some California explorer or pioneer, or for some long-deceased Italian immigrant who founded only the hotel itself. Whoever it commemorated, the hotel was a poor monument, and Billy Tully had no intention of staying on.”
― Leonard Gardner, Fat City

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#8

“L'enfer, c'est les autres.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Huis clos: suivi de Les Mouches

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#9

“Without faith these abandoned Spaniards and Italians will go mad.”
― V.S. Naipaul, The Return of Evan Peron

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#10

“Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.”
― Bruce Springsteen

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#11

“Obsessions are the only things that matter.”
― Patricia Highsmith

tags: autism, matter, meaning, obsessions

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#12

“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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#13

“Think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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#14

“Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

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#15

“Boy, the only thing to make is the thing without a name.”
― V.S. Naipaul, Miguel Street

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#16

“He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

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#17

“Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!

tags: hair, humor, redheads

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#18

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I am going is what inspires me to travel it.”
― Rosalia de Castro

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#19

“I may have written myself into a corner.”
― Snoopy

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#20

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston Churchill

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#21

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: ironic, sad

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#22

“I tell you this, my friend; all men are cowards. They dislike a fact except when it is so wrapped up in lies and sentiments that the sharp edge of it cannot hurt them. When a man tells the truth he his, depend upon it, a dangerous man.”
― Eric Ambler, Epitaph for a Spy

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#23

“Io credo nel mistero delle parole, e che le parole possano diventare vita, destino; così come diventano bellezza.”
― Leonardo Sciascia

tags: books, quotes

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#24

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: love-loss

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#25

“La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: borges, doubt, inteligencia, intelligence, la-duda, skepticism, spanish-literature

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#26

“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
― Voltaire

tags: doubt

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#27

“Do you like being a cop?"
"I love it, when it doesn't suck, sir.”
― Edward Conlon, Blue Blood by Conlon, Edward (2004) Paperback

tags: cops, police, the-job

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#28

“La religion pour moi est un transport collectif que je ne prends pas. J’aime aller vers ce Dieu, à pied s’il le faut, mais pas en voyage organisé.”
― Kamel Daoud

tags: dieu, religion

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#29

“In the city as nowhere else we are reminded that we are individuals, units. Yet the idea of the city remains; it is the god of the city we pursue, in vain.”
― V.S. Naipaul, The Mimic Men

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#30

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical

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