Nelson Rodrigues (1912 – 1980)
Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist.
The keyhole is my lens as a writer.
Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!
I only believe in those who can still blush.
I won't stand for censorship, not even from Jesus Christ.
A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.
Any individual is greater than the Milky Way.
Money buys everything, even true love.
I am, and have always been, a pornographic angel.
Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.
Not all women like it rough. Only the normal ones.
The audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on.
Unanimity is always stupid.
Love is impossible without bite marks.
To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us.
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.
In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.
It's very hard not to be a scumbag nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.
Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.
The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.