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Roland Barthes has 124 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all…
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much…
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of…
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or…
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that…
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is…
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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of…
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Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A…
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is…
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The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
— Ethel Barrymore
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What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
— Kenneth Tynan
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After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went…
— Billy Wilder
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
— Clare Boothe Luce
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There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!
— Henri Langlois
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It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or…
— John Lennon
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You can compare me with Greta Garbo. I have big feet, too.
— Lee Remick
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She's got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs, she's got Bette Davis eyes.
— Kim Carnes
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It's one of the most beautiful memories of my life. Not everyone has a chance to meet Greta Garbo! I was so…
— Giovanna Cau
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I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were…
— Robert De Niro
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I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.
— Joan Rivers
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As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the…
— Roland Barthes
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