Boris Vian Quotes

• 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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  Love, Music, Beautiful

  Boris Vian (2001). “I spit on your graves”, Canongate Books

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• 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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  Moving, Fall, Simple

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• Chansons possibles ou impossibles

  Boris Vian

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

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  Individual, Torts, Mass

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• Mais enfin, bande de critiques, les livres que vous ne comprenez pas ne vaudraient-ils pas au moins que vous les signaliez? For heaven's sake, gang of critics, don't the books which you do not understand at least deserve recognition?

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  Book, Heaven, Sake

  1948 In La Seine,19 Apr.

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

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  Perfect, Plus, Corpses

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• 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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  Inspiration, Musical, Fans

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• 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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  White, Black, Elements

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• I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

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  Thinking, Trumpets, Bits

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• 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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  Men, Design, Femme

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

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  Fun, Play, Courses

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