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"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."
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"Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based."
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"If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves."
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"Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead."
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"Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and it was on an endless loop."
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"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."
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"Never assume the obvious is true."
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"The great discoveries are usually obvious."
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"On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself."
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"I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer."
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"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety."
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"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."
Age

"Sin is whatever obscures the soul."
Soul

"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress."
Friendship

"What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."
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"It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle."
People

"To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations."
Past

""Therefore" is a word the poet must not know."
Literature

"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."
Work

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
Art

"Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
Art
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