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Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.


River Phoenix


#best #bothered #called #children #clothes

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.


Edith Piaf


#even #i #make #people #understand

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.


Jean Piaget


#contact #external #external world #immediate #in other words

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.


Jodi Picoult


#book #books #break #call #chapters

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.


Harold Pinter


#doing #hit #i #last #love

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.


Luigi Pirandello


#alive #author #before #characters #does

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.


Bernard Pivot


#difficulties #english #gender #speakers #words

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.


Plautus


#celebrate #let us #occasion #sweet #us

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.


Marcus V. Pollio


#because #corresponding #difficult #greek #harmony

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.


Jackson Pollock


#energy #expressing #forces #in other words #inner






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