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“... I doubt the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, that child would grow up to be an eggplant.”
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“I don't see as it matters much how well you mean if it's harm you're doin' ...”
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“A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.”
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“No man feels like laughing when he bumps his funny-bone.”
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“Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it, in small or drastic ways beyond our control. The precise, exquisite influence of timing moves people into new positions as surely as a spring flood rearranges the landscape. It is as unavoidable as life.”
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“... an expert is anyone from out of town ...”
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“The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people — on acts, and objects, and places, and ways of life. The camera brings a kind of stardom to them all. I therefore doubt that film can ever argue effectively against its own material: that a genuine antiwar film, say, can be made on the basis of even the ugliest battle scenes ... No matter what filmmakers intend, film always argues yes.”
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“A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.”