Méfie-toi de celui qui rit avant de parler!
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Distrust the man who smiles before he speaks.
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Tartarin sur les Alpes (1885; repr. New York: H. Holt, 1917) p. 89; Katharine Prescott Wormeley (trans.) Tartarin of Tarascon. To Which is Added Tartarin on the Alps (Boston: Little, Brown, 1900) p. 241.Alphonse Daudet
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The time has probably come to admit that the notion of an avant-garde is no longer useful in discussing contemporary literature. How can there be an avant-garde without a mainstream? Avant-garde de quoi? one must ask. Establishment institutions — universities, museums, foundations, commercial galleries, even the state — have embraced the idea of experimental art for so long that the avant-garde is now a safely domesticated concept, just another traditional style.
Dana Gioia
I think a label like "avant-garde" defeats itself. You learn to have avant-garde exhibitions. The very fact that avant-garde can have an exhibition defeats the purpose of avant-garde, because it's already formalised and ritualised.
John Lennon
Celui-l? fait plus, pour un hydropique, qui le guérit de la soif, que celui qui lui donne un tonneau de vin. Appliquez cela aux richesses.
Nicolas Chamfort
Il y a deux amours: celui qui commande et celui qui obéit; ils sont distincts et donnent naissance ? deux passions, et l’une n’est pas l’autre.
Honore de Balzac
L’écrivain original n’est pas celui qui n’imite personne, mais celui que personne ne peut imiter.
Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
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