(I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.)"
- Benjamin Constant
(10/23/1767 – 12/08/1830)
French writer
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| "Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vecu pres d'elle. (I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.)"
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| "Masefield's sonnets? Ah yes. Very nice. Pure Shakespeare. Masefield's 'Reynard the Fox'? Very nice, too. Pure Chaucer. Masefield's 'Everlasting Mercy'? H'm. Yes. Pure Masefield."
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"It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times."
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"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football."
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"A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before."
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"Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin."
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"Ronald Reagan couldn't be here tonight; he's posing for the cover of 'Guns and Ammo.'"
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"I said to this priest: 'Am I expected to believe that if I went out and had an affair that God was really going to be upset? Okay, thou shalt not kill... steal... but thou shalt not commit adultery? If no one is any the wiser, what the hell difference does it make?' He was lovely. He told me the Commandments were laid down for a lot of guys living in the desert."
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"I never exaggerate; I just remember big."
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"I'm interested in stories about people as we knew them in the near-recent future."
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"Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string."
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"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito."
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"Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western."
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"On that note, that being said, it was damn hard kissing her. You've never experienced anything until you've had a mature, darting tongue in your mouth."
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| Died 10/22 | Died 10/23 | Died 10/24 | Death Dates |