Jean-Claude Izzo quotes
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“Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.”
-- Jean-Claude IzzoSource : Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.76, Penguin
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“The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.”
-- Jean-Claude IzzoSource : Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.117, Penguin
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“Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words.”
-- Jean-Claude IzzoSource : Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.55, Penguin
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“I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner.”
-- Jean-Claude IzzoSource : Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.53, Penguin
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“Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a place where you have to take sides, be passionately for or against. Only then can you see what there is to see. And you realize, too late, that you're in the middle of a tragedy. An ancient tragedy in which the hero is death. In Marseilles, even to lose you have to know how to fight.”
-- Jean-Claude IzzoSource : Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.28, Penguin
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“I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry”
-- Jean-Claude IzzoSource : Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Chourmo”, p.100, Penguin
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“If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.”
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“The last day of your life is still going to be a day.”
Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.
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