Nelson Rodrigues
34 quotes
Biography
"I am, and have always been, a pornographic angel."
"The keyhole is my lens as a writer."
"To save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of monsters at them. They are our monster which we will temporarily free ourselves from only to face another day."
"Only the prophets see the obvious."
"Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child."
"Unanimity is always stupid."
"Sex education should only be taught by veterinarians."
"Love is impossible without bite marks."
"I only believe in those who can still blush."
"Human beings are blind to their own faults. In the movies, villains never proclaim that they are villains. Nor do idiots say that they are idiots. Our faults lie within us, active and fierce, but unconfessed. I've never seen a man walk downstage and announce, his head held high, "Ladies and gentleman, I'm a scumbag!""
"Love is eternal. If it ends, it wasn't love."
"Husbands shouldn't be the last to know. Husbands should never know!"
"To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us."
"I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal."
"Every shy person is a potential sex offender."
"If life turns her back on you, grab her ass."
"Money buys everything, even true love."
"The audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on."
"I won't stand for censorship, not even from Jesus Christ."
"Any individual is greater than the Milky Way."
"To be the best in the world in anything, even 'long distance spitting', implies a grave, heavy and suffocating responsibility."
"All women like a beating."
"Not all women like a beating. Only the normal ones."
"The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity."
"Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures."