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It's finally happened; scientists claim to have discovered the very first person in history who doesn't like french fries. Just imagine the implications!


Graham Parke


#imagination

Que les poètes morts laissent la place aux autres. Et nous pourrions tout de même voir que c'est notre vénération devant ce qui a été déjà fait, si beau et si valable que ce soit, qui nous pétrifie, qui nous stabilise et nous empêche de prendre contact avec la force qui est dessous, que l'on appelle l'énergie pensante, la force vitale, le déterminisme des échanges, les menstrues de la lune ou tout ce qu'on voudra.


Antonin Artaud


#essay #french #inspiration #inspirational #poetry

On ne se souvient pas des jours, on se souvient des instants.


Cesare Pavese


#life #life

If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.


Friedrich Engels


#french #marx #women #life

Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)


Victor Hugo


#victor-hugo #life

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

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

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