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  • If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.

  • All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be.

  • ... with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

  • Talent makes us larger than we are, self-denial makes us smaller.

  • ... a church is an interesting place once you get the parson and the people out of it. Real music can get in then, and a real God! Nothing flibertigibbet about religion then.

  • The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot ...

  • They say love is a two-way street. But I don't believe it, because the one I've been on for the last two years was a dirt road.

  • That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special — these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.