Josep Pla's most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: In this aspect of life there are friends, acquaintances and people you just say hello to. · Every year the peasants build the landscape. And the result never fails. · In matters of life I have always been very tolerant; with adjectives I never would be.. (Updated Jan 25, 2024.)
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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Top 13
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In this aspect of life there are friends, acquaintances and people you just say hello to.
Notes per a Sílvia.
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Every year the peasants build the landscape. And the result never fails.
Els pagesos (The Peasants, 1968).
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In matters of life I have always been very tolerant; with adjectives I never would be.
Notes del capvesprol (Evening Notes, 1979).
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An adjective must first be intelligible and clear, and then, if possible, precise.
Notes del capvesprol (Evening Notes, 1979).
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One must write freely, with taste, with pleasure, but with the greatest possible observation.
Notes del capvesprol (Evening Notes, 1979).
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The writer has a total responsibility to the times he has to live in.
La vida amarga (The Bitter Life, 1967).
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A writer's first duty is to observe, relate and express the age he lives in.
La vida amarga (The Bitter Life, 1967).
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Many Catalans are interested in Catalonia, but they do not believe in it.
Notes disperses (Scattered Notes, 1969).
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The Empordà, I hear people say, is a land of hotheads, rowdies, spendthrift heirs and madmen.
The Gray Notebook (1966).
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The only important thing in life is concrete individual freedom.
Els pagesos (The Peasants, 1968).
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Cooking is as high an art as writing well.
El meu país (My Country, 1968).
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People from Palafrugell carry a dream floating in their minds all their lives: the wonderful life of a free man at sea.
El meu país (My Country, 1968).
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I like painted landscapes. I like contemplating a real landscape even more.
Humor, candor... (1973).
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