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French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go from one absurdity to another - Stalinism, existentialism. Lacan, Derrida - some of them obscene ( Stalinism), some simply infantile and ridiculous ( Lacan, Derrida). What is striking, however, is the pomposity and self-importance, at each stage.


Noam Chomsky


#french-intellectuals #lacan #sartre #life

Rien ne va arrêter ma quête pour te trouver" No one will stop my quest to find you.


Susane Colasanti


#french #hope #love #quest #love

So it was perfectly possible that there were men who liked shopping, men who understood exactly what it was all about, but Mma Ramotwe had yet to meet such a man. Maybe they existed elsewhere - in France, perhaps - but they did not seem to be much in evidence in Botswana.


Alexander McCall Smith


#humour #mma-ramotswe #men

ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville. CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal." ... ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked. CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.


Jean-Luc Godard


#french-cinema #french-film #french-new-wave #movie-quote #movies

They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.


André Gide


#nature

I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.


Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly


#french #remorse #respect #respect

Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.


John Hughes


#pretention #pretentiousness #respect #restaurants #snobbery

I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence...


Marcel Proust


#proust #violence

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we produce, whether we know it or not, is a mongrel mouthful of Chaucerian, Shakespearean, Miltonic, Johnsonian, Dickensian and American. Military, naval, legal, corporate, criminal, jazz, rap and ghetto discourses are mingled at every turn. The French language, like Paris, has attempted, through its Academy, to retain its purity, to fight the advancing tides of Franglais and international prefabrication. English, by comparison, is a shameless whore.


Stephen Fry


#french #humour #language #london #paris

The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit.


The Invisible Committee


#french #revolt #revolution #anarchism