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Prisoner Quotes by Italo Calvino
- I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there…
- ...and every Wednesday the perfumed young lady slips me a hundred-crown note to leave her alone with the convict. And by Thursday the hundred crowns…
- I speak and speak,” Marco says, “but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. The description of the world to which you lend…
- I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is…
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- I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image. — Juliette Binoche
- The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one… — Jim Bishop
- In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians… — Daniel Boone
- As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when… — Jackson Browne
- You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories. — Eric Cantona
- I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign. — Hugo Chavez
- A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. — Winston Churchill
- My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in… — John Henrik Clarke
- In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. — Eldridge Cleaver