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“I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true...what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.”
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“Film is a battleground.”
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“The world needs your story in order to be complete.”
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“Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study of ultimate (evolutionary) causes, the subject of natural history.”
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“I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, but it goes, 'The soul selects her own society.' I used to tell it to everybody. Once I quoted it to a friend of mine, and he said, 'Maybe, but the body gets thrown into bed with the goddamnedest people.”
Source : Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”
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“I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot.”
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“A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.”
Source : Nikolai Gogol (1936). “Dead Souls”
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“Chin up, shoulders back. Let ‘em know you’re here. #ProudOfWhoYouAre”
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“You will never make it. ‘It’ doesn’t exist for an artist.”
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“We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.”
