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"To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes."
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"They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did."

"Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire."

"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

"Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection."

"There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it."

"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."
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"So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it."

"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that."

"Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel."
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