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"A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain."

"I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?"

"People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power."

"Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work."

"I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs."
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"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."

"I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force."

"Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force."

"The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia."

"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."

"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."

"Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one."

"The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher."
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