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The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.
You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.
It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.
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There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".
No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.
Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.
Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.
If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.
Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
When you told me you loved me," Lily's eyes widened when she looked at Lux, "You saved the world.
I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.
Imagination makes us shape better stories, sure, but it also allows us to multiply possibilities.
A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract.
What is the difference between the novelist and the liar? At some moments, I have often wondered.
Writers interest me for their style, their obsessions, the ways in which they approach the world.
Let me be reborn. I would like to be born again twenty-five times to spread Lord Buddha's Dhamma.
For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
There is no place on earth, no day or night, no hour or minute, when one is not a Jew or a woman.
- the only difference between a happy ending and a sad ending is where you decide the story ends.
I make the modest proposal that psychiatric care should be as easy to get as bullets at Wal-Mart.
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A race between Perry and Christie would test whether Americans would rather be executed or eaten.
When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.
She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose.
My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.
I will howl for you, human boy (...). I will hunt you in my girl skin but I'll celebrate as wolf.
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.
I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.
I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.
The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.
A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.
As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!
Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.