Nelson Rodrigues Quotes

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A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.

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The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.

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Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.

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The audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on.

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Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!

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It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.

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Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.

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In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.

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Husbands shouldn't be the last to know. Husbands should never know!

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Not all women like a beating. Only the normal ones.

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To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us.

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To be the best in the world in anything, even 'long distance spitting', implies a grave, heavy and suffocating responsibility.

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Human beings are blind to their own faults. In the movies, villains never proclaim that they are villains. Nor do idiots say that they are idiots. Our faults lie within us, active and fierce, but unconfessed. I've never seen a man walk downstage and announce, his head held high, "Ladies and gentleman, I'm a scumbag!"

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I won't stand for censorship, not even from Jesus Christ.

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Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.""

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To save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of monsters at them. They are our monster which we will temporarily free ourselves from only to face another day.

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Sex education should only be taught by veterinarians.

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