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"The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself."
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"We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God's feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes our day and God's share in it is felt as a tribute which we must pay out of 'our own' pocket, a deduction from the time which ought, we feel, to be 'our own'. A man starts a new job with a sense of vocation and, perhaps, for the first week still keeps the discharge of the vocation as his end, taking the pleasures and pains from God's hand, as they came, as 'accidents'. But in the second week he is beginning to 'know the ropes': by the third, he has quarried out of the total job his own plan for himself within that job, and when he can pursue this he feels that he is getting no more than his rights, and when he cannot, that he is being interfered."
"The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions."
"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."
"Employment stereotypes you."
"The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere."
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"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."
"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."
"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."
"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"
"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."
"There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work."
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