Quotes from The Ski Bum

“کسانی که عقاید احمقانه شان را ابراز می کنند اغلب بسیار حساسند. هر قدر عقاید کسی احمقانه تر باشد کمتر باید با او مخالفت کرد”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“کسی که سزاوار نام انسان باشد همیشه احساس ندامت می کند و این خود محکی برای شناختن انسانهاست”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“میلیونها و میلیاردها آدم توی این دنیا هست که همشون می تونن بی «تو» زندگی کنن. اما آخه چرا من نمی تونم؟! این درد رو کجا ببرم؟! «من نمی تونم بی تو زندگی کنم!» کاری که هر کسی می تونه بکنه، کاری که از یه بچۀ پنج ساله بر می آد از من بر نمی آد”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“حتی در مورد بهترین چیزها باید آدم بتواند و به موقع دست نگه دارد”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“دنیا را باید عوض کرد. باید همه باهم متحد بشن تا دنیارو عوض کنن. ولی آخه اگه همه می تونستن باهم متحد بشن دیگه برای چی دنیارو عوض کنن؟”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“از همین می ترسم. «به کسی یا چیزی عادت می کنی، اون وقت اون چیز یا اون کس قالت می گذاره.» اون وقت دیگه هیـچ چیـز برات باقی نمی مونه”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“«سکوت دو نفری آدمارو خیلی بهم نزدیک می کنه»”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“«اولین عشق»
یه اسم وقیحانه و تلخ! معنیش اینه که عشقهای دیگری هم بعد از آن می آید. حتی نیشخند حکیمانۀ دانندۀ گوینده هم از لای آن پیداست. اما اشتباه می کنن. هیچ کس در عمرش دو بار عاشق نشده. عشق دوم و سوم و...!!! تنها معنیش اینه که «هیچ معنی ای نداره.» رفت و آمده، خفت و خیزه. حتما زندگیهایی هست که جز همین خفت و خیز نیست”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“اگر آدم، در قایقی، وسط اقیانوس باشد جدا عالمی دارد. وسط اقیانوس! تک و تنها! توی قایق! نه موتوری! نه بادبانی و نه حتی خود قایق... آسایش حقیقی یعنی همین”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“برای بارور شدن مردان بزرگ «کودِ تاریخ» لازم است. گلهای عجیب و غریبی که به وجود می آورد، مثل گاندی، ناپلئون. اینها همه از اعماق کثافت بیرون می آن، از ته بیست قرن چرک و خون و کود تاریخ سر بلند می کنن”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“عشق فقط هم آغوشی نیست... عشق، زندگی است که می خواد شمارو دوباره «گرفتار» خودش بکنه”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“Your generation is suffering from what for lack of a better word I shall call over-debunk. There was a lot of debunking that had to be done, of course. Bigotry, militarism, nationalism, religious intolerance, hypocrisy, phonyness, all sorts of dangerous, ready-made, artificially preserved false values. But your generation and the generation before yours went too far with their debunking job. You went overboard. Over-debunk, that's what you did. It's moral overkill. It's like those insecticides Rachel Carson speaks of in her book, that poison everything, and kill all the nice, useful bugs as well as the bad ones, and in the end poison human beings as well. In the end, it poisons life itself, the very air we breathe. That's what you did, morally and intellectually speaking. Yours is a silent spring. You have overprotected yourselves. You are all no more than twenty, twenty-two years old, but yours is a silent spring, I'm telling you. Nothing sings for you any more.”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“He gave up. He'd been feeling like giving up for a long, long time. I guess it's maturity, they say it always gets you in the end. I don't seem to have any more principles left, so it's got to be maturity... A broken man, I guess that's what you become, the moment you are no longer a kid.”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“کلمات همیشه مالِ دیگران است. یک جور میراثی که مثل آوار روی آدم خراب می شود. چون آدم همیشه به زبانی حرف می زند که ساخته ی دیگران است. آدم در ایجاد آن هیچ دخالتی نداسته و هیچ چیز مال خودش نیست. کلمات حکم پول تقلبی را دارند که به آدم قالب کرده باشند. هیچ چیزش نیست که به خیانت آلوده نباشد

رومن گاری__”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“یکی از احمقانه ترین فرمول های روانشناخت جدید این است که می گویند :
" علت میخواری معتادان این است که نمیتوانند خود را با واقعیات سازگار کنند "
ولی آخر کسی که بتواند خود را با واقعیات سازگار کند که یک بی درد الدنگ است”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“-I love you, Lenny.
-From the diaphragm.
-What are you talking about?
-You have to say it from the diaphragm. That's a muscle in here. Real deep, not from the throat. I tried to be an actor once and that's the first thing they told me. That's when I quit. I just didn't have that much in my diaphragm.”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“دموکراسی یعنی «اقلیتها»؛ وقتی آدم به یک گروه بیست میلیونی تعلق دارد معنیش این است که هنوز کسی است. ولی وقتی کار به دویست میلیون رسید دیگر هیچ معنایی ندارد. فقط تفاله است. اکثریت که به وجود اومد دیگه دموکراسی نیست”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“باران می آمد و روی شیروانی ترانه می نواخت: ترانه ای که اگه آدم اون رو شب، در امنِ آغوش او گوش کنه زیباترین ترانۀ دنیاست. هر قدر باد شدیدتر باشه و بارون تند تر بیاد بازوهاش محکمتر دورت فشرده میشه و تو توی بغلش راحت تری و دیگه از هیچ چیز نمی ترسی. دست کم این احساس منه. تمام عمرم صدای بارون روی شیروانی رو تنها شنیدم. بارون دوست نداره کسی تنها ترانه اش رو گوش بده. من ناکامیش رو خوب حس می کنم”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“مصونیت سیاسی چیز مقدسی است. آدم را به قدری خوب از همۀ بلایا حفظ می کند که عاقبت زیرابتان از داخل زده می شود. حباب شیشه ای که حافظ شماست دست آخر خفه تان می کند”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“حتی در ترانه های شکسپیر هم اثری از اُمّید نیست، چون در آن زمان سیفیلیس بیداد می کرد. اندوه عمیق نهفته در ترانه های شکسپیر از آنجاست که در آن روزها «عشق» همیشه با سیفیلیس متداعی بود. هفتاد درصد مردم به آن مبتلا بودند. زنگ عمیق اشعار عاشقانه به همین دلیل بود. چون عاقبتش دیوانگی بود یا کوری و هیچ علاجی هم نداشت. «عشق» چیزی بود فوق العاده «مهم»، درست مثل «مرگ» و «زندگی». امروز «عشق» اهمیت تراژیک خود را از دست داده است چون حسابش از «کوفت» جدا شده است”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“آدم حکم پول را دارد . هر قدر مقدارش بیشتر ، ارزشش کمتر . امروز چیزی که هیچ ارزش ندارد جوان بیست ساله است”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“لنی پاپ را دوست داشت . او خیلی از کسانی را که هرگز ندیده بود دوست داشت . بهترین آدم ها همان ها بودند که او هرگز ندیده بود”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“The diplomatic kids had a hectic sort of life, being constantly thrown from one end of the world to the other and always playing tennis, no matter who was being machine-gunned in the streets, you were always extraterritorial, history was not permitted to touch you, it was only buzzing around your tennis court in a bloody sort of way. You were so well protected that you went to pieces. Diplomatic immunity could do very strange things to you, it was like weightlessness. You had to remind yourself constantly that you actually existed, and you were not supposed to identify yourself too much with the suffering of whatever country you were posted to. But then, who needs reality anyway?”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“-Would you wish us to invest it for you?
-No, I would like you to set up a trust for dumb animals.
-What kind of dumb animals do you have in mind, Miss Donahue?
-Oh, stray dogs. Rats. Birds.
-We could still invest it for you. Then the animals would get the income without touching the capital.
-No, I don't wish to invest it. I don't want them to get rich. They might become human.”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“بعضی وقت ها خیال میکنم که آدم به دنیا اومده که اسباب تفریح مردم بشه”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“همه نسلها نسل بربادرفته اند.اصلا علامت یک نسل همین است که بر باد رفته است. وقتی آدم این را احساس نکند پیداست کارش پاک خراب است. نسلهایی که بربادرفتگی خود را حس نمیکنند در گه خفه شده اند.”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“البته او به خدا اعتقادی نداشت، چه حرفها! ولی احساس می کرد که به جای خدا کسی یا چیزی هست. کسی یا چیزی که با خدا کاملا فرق دارد و هنوز به داد کسی نرسیده است. وجود او را چنان بدیهی می دانست که تعجب می کرد که چطور مردم هنوز به خدا اعتقاد دارند حال آنکه چیزی چنان تابناک و حقیقی وجود دارد، چیزی که مطلقا نمی شد در وجودش تردید کرد. آدمهایی که به خدا اعتقاد دارند در اعماق دلشان همه بی خدا هستند”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“علم، تپانچه ی عجیبی است. با همه جور چیز میشود آن را پر کرد و درق درق کلک هر چیز قشنگی که هست را کند.”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“زن خاکستر معشوق را به خانه می‌آورد و آن را در یک ساعت شنی می‌ریزد و می‌گوید: خیال کردی حقه زدی و از گذشت زمان راحت شدی؟ حال توی همین ساعت جریان داشته باش و با من پیر شو.”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

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