Emanuele Malpezzi > Emanuele's Quotes

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“Vice is a monster of so frightful mien
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.”
― Alexander Pope

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard travelling. I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you. I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs and to sing the kind that knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think that you've not got any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before I'd sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow.”
― Woody Guthrie

“Vedere il lato bello, accontentarsi del momento migliore, fidarsi di quest’abbraccio e non chiedere altro perché la sua vita è solo sua e per quanto tu voglia, per quanto ti faccia impazzire non gliela cambierai in tuo favore. Fidarsi del suo abbraccio, della sua pelle contro la tua, questo ti deve essere sufficiente, lo vedrai andare via tante altre volte e poi una volta sarà l’ultima, ma tu dici, stasera, adesso, non è già l’ultima volta? Vedere il lato bello, accontentarsi del momento migliore, fidarsi di quando ti cerca in mezzo alla folla, fidarsi del suo addio, avere più fiducia nel tuo amore che non gli cambierà la vita, ma che non dannerà la tua perché se tu lo ami, e se soffri e se vai fuori di testa questi sono problemi solo tuoi; fidarsi dei suoi baci, della sua pelle quando sta con la tua pelle, l’amore è niente di più, sei tu che confondi l’ amore con la vita.”
― Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Biglietti agli amici

“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb. (Don't Hesitate)”
― Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems