# Josep Pla's most famous quotes

Friends, acquaintances and people you just greet; peasants who make the landscape; the obsession with the right adjective: the most quoted lines of Catalan writer Josep Pla, with the book they come from.

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- Jan 25, 2024 · Albert Casals
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## Top 13

1. **In this aspect of life there are friends, acquaintances and people you just say hello to.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Notes per a Sílvia.
2. **Every year the peasants build the landscape. And the result never fails.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Els pagesos (The Peasants, 1968).
3. **In matters of life I have always been very tolerant; with adjectives I never would be.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Notes del capvesprol (Evening Notes, 1979).
4. **An adjective must first be intelligible and clear, and then, if possible, precise.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Notes del capvesprol (Evening Notes, 1979).
5. **One must write freely, with taste, with pleasure, but with the greatest possible observation.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Notes del capvesprol (Evening Notes, 1979).
6. **The writer has a total responsibility to the times he has to live in.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — La vida amarga (The Bitter Life, 1967).
7. **A writer's first duty is to observe, relate and express the age he lives in.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — La vida amarga (The Bitter Life, 1967).
8. **Many Catalans are interested in Catalonia, but they do not believe in it.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Notes disperses (Scattered Notes, 1969).
9. **The Empordà, I hear people say, is a land of hotheads, rowdies, spendthrift heirs and madmen.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Gray Notebook (1966).
10. **The only important thing in life is concrete individual freedom.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Els pagesos (The Peasants, 1968).
11. **Cooking is as high an art as writing well.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — El meu país (My Country, 1968).
12. **People from Palafrugell carry a dream floating in their minds all their lives: the wonderful life of a free man at sea.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — El meu país (My Country, 1968).
13. **I like painted landscapes. I like contemplating a real landscape even more.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Humor, candor... (1973).

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