37 Quotes About Don-quixote
- Author Mike Klepper
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If you can see something, and it is wrong, you can fight it with a reasonable chance of success. Fighting the nonexistent is worse than pointless: Don Quixote tilted at windmills, but at least windmills are real.
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- Author Dale Wasserman
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I come in a world of iron...to make a world of gold
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- Author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it.
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- Author Andrzej Sapkowski
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And you know each other, you say?''As sure as eggs is eggs,' the goliard confirmed cheerfully. 'After all, I know his name, and he mine. He knows I'm called Tybald Raabe. Go on, m'lord Reinmar, what's my name?''Tybald Raabe''See?
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- Author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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...if the verses are for a literary competition, your grace should try to win second place; first is always won through favor or because of the high estate of the person, second is won because of pure justice, and by this calculation third becomes second, and the first becomes third...
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- Author Neal Shusterman
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Don Quixote - the famous literary madman - fought windmills. People think he saw giants when he looked at them, but those of us who've been there know the truth. He saw windmills, just like everyone else - but he believed they were giants. The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe.
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- Author Dejan Stojanovic
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Quixote shines from Lorca and Picasso, From Dalí and El Greco, From the gloomy 'View of Toledo.' He was born before Cervantes.
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- Author Dejan Stojanovic
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Those in Argentina, Mexico and Peru, Colombia and the Caribbean Bear La Mancha and Quixote in their heartsFor he is an ultimate and overlooked Don Juan.
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- Author Martin Amis
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While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw—that of outright unreadability.
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