Quotes

Eye on the Prize

Mario Ruoppolo: If you make this much of a fuss about one poem, you're never going to win that Nobel Prize.

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Smiles

Mario Ruoppolo: Your smile spreads like a butterfly.

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Cliche

Pablo Neruda: Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often.

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Ownership

Mario Ruoppolo: Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it; it belongs to those who need it.

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Banality

Pablo Neruda: When you explain poetry, it becomes banal. Better than any explanation is the experience of feelings that poetry can reveal to a nature open enough to understand it.

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Simple

Pablo Neruda: Man has no business with the simplicity or complexity of things.

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End Times

Capt. de Boeldieu: I think we can do nothing to stop the march of time.
Capt. von Rauffenstein: Believe me, I don't know who is going to win this war the end, whatever it is will be the end of the Rauffensteins and the Boeldieus

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Borders

Lieutenant Rosenthal: Frontiers are an invention of men. Nature doesn't give a hoot.

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Not a Surprise

Carl Bernstein: [Walking up to the Sloans' house] All these neat, little houses and all these nice, little streets... It's hard to believe that something's wrong with some of those little houses.
Bob Woodward: No, it isn't.

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Getting it Right

Ben Bradlee: Now hold it, hold it. We're about to accuse Haldeman, who only happens to be the second most important man in this country, of conducting a criminal conspiracy from inside the White House. It would be nice if we were right.

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