Luis Bunuel quotes

" If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul. People smoke to celebrate a happy moment, or to hide a bitter regret. Whether you're alone or with friends, it's a joy for all the senses. What lovelier sight is there than that double row of white cigarettes, lined up like soldiers on parade and wrapped in silver paper? I love to touch the pack in my pocket, open it, savor the feel of the cigarette between my fingers, the paper on my lips, the taste of tobacco on my tongue. I love to watch the flame spurt up, love to watch it come closer and closer, filling me with its warmth. " # Smoking # Love # Happiness

" You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing. " # Memory # Life and Living # Action

" In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. " # Age and Aging # Doctors # Poetry and Poets

" The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time. " # Alcohol and Alcoholism # Freedom # Power

" If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior. " # God # Freedom # Power

" Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether. " # Imagination # Freedom # Women

" In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important. " # Arts and Artists # Writers and Writing # Responsibility

" I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life. " # Memory # Life and Living # Love

" A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made. " # Paranoia

" God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. " # Patriotism # Teams and Teamwork # God