Ben Maddow quotes
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“I feel certain that the largest part of all photographs ever taken or being taken or ever to be taken, is and will continue to be, portraits. This is not only true, it is also necessary. We are not solitary mammals, like the elephant, the whale and the ape. What is most profoundly felt between us, even if hidden, will reappear in our portraits of one another.”
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“The persistent problem in photography is how to look at it.”
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“The slice of time has become enormous in importance, and its hidden meaning is now perfectly plain, though so complex that it can hardly be written down.”
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“Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.”
-- Ben MaddowSource : "Fictional character: Doc Riedenschneider". "The Asphalt Jungle", 1950.
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“Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all overthe place for no sensible reason. A gun fires of its own accord and a man is shot. And a broken-down old house no good for anything but chasing kids has to trip over us. Blind accidents. What can you do against blind accidents?”
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“One way or another we all work for our vice.”
-- Ben MaddowSource : "Fictional character: Doc Erwin Riedenschneider". "The Asphalt Jungle", www.imdb.com. 1950.
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Source : A. J. Liebling (2004). “Mollie and Other War Pieces”, p.121, U of Nebraska Press
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“I'm a Pisces but I'd rather be a killa whale.”
Source : Song: Killa Whale
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