Boris Vian quotes
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“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.”
-- Boris VianSource : Boris Vian (2001). “I spit on your graves”, Canongate Books
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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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“Rien n'est plus parfait, plus acheve  qu'un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse.”
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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?”
-- Boris VianSource : 1948 In La Seine,19 Apr.
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“Chansons possibles ou impossibles”
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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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“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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“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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“I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.”
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“Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me"Â me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.”
-- Boris Vian
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