“Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.”
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“I've got a fat head. There's nothing I can do about it.”
Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
The Moaning of Life, General Quotes
Günter Brus (1938) Austrian artist
Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 12 (Gunter Brus inDie Schastrommel.Organ der österreichischen Exilregierung.Bolzano:ed. Gunter Brus,June 1972,no.8a, p. 57.)
Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
Xfm 18 January 2003
On Nature
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
Não sou nada.
Nunca serei nada.
Não posso querer ser nada.
À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.
Álvaro de Campos (heteronym), Tabacaria ["The Tobacconist's" or "The Tobacco Shop"] (15 January 1928)
Variant translations:
I am nothing.
Never shall be anything.
Cannot will to be anything.
This apart, I have in me all the dreams of the world.
trans. Jonathan Griffin, in Selected Poems (Penguin Books, 1974), p. 111
I am not nothing.
I will never be nothing.
I cannot ever want to be nothing.
Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams of the world.
In Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations (2005), p. 649
I am nothing.
I shall never be anything.
I cannot even wish to be anything.
Apart from this, I have within me all the dreams of the world.
Variant: I am nothing.
I will never be anything.
I cannot wish to be anything.
Bar that, I have in me all the dreams of the world.
Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita
Book One in 'Black Magic and Its Expose', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)