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1912–1980 Brazil
Nelson Rodrigues (August 23, 1912 – December 21, 1980) Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist. During a long and prolific career, Rodrigues, who called himself "a pornographic angel," unflinchingly explored the darker side of the human psyche.
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To be the best in the world in anything, even 'long distance spitting', implies a grave, heavy and suffocating responsibility.
In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.
To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us.
Every shy person is a potential sex offender.
If life turns her back on you, grab her ass.
The audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on.
Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.
Sex education should only be taught by veterinarians.
The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.
I only believe in those who can still blush.
Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.
Love is eternal. If it ends, it wasn't love.
Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!
I won't stand for censorship, not even from Jesus Christ.
I am, and have always been, a pornographic angel.
Any individual is greater than the Milky Way.
The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.
It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.
Not all women like a beating. Only the normal ones.
Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.""
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