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- Orson Welles - Host: Well, it's time to close and I think I'd like to end with a Basque ending - the way they end every story - every Basque story. I warn you... it's a little tough. It's not a bit sentimental; it's very much on the realistic side and therefore very Basque indeed. At the end of a story, a Basque story, they don't say, "And they lived happily ever after." No, here in the Basque country they say, "And if they lived well, they died well."
- Orson Welles - Host: The people who live here are neither French nor Spanish - they're Basques. The rise and fall of other republics, other kingdoms has never made them forget it - that they are Basques and that Basques are... what Basques are. Well, what is a Basque? All we know for sure is what a Basque is not. Besides not being French or Spanish, a Basque is not Mediterrean, Alpine, Magyar, Celtic, Germanic, Semetic nor Scandanavian. He is not even Aryan. Nobody knows who his ancestors were. According to him, Adam and Eve were pure Basque.