Stanislaw Lec Quotes

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"The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper."

"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet."
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"A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?"

"Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing."

"The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."

"If you don't believe in your product, of if you're not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the wherewithal to do what it takes to make your product work."

"Telling lies does not work in advertising."

"First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent."

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."
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"Value your words. Each one may be the last."

"You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories."

"Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured."

"When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy."

"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."

"In a war of ideas it is people who get killed."

"The first requisite for immortality is death."

"The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it."

"Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?"

"Never lie when the truth is more profitable."

"Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody."