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"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."
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"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power."
"Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level."
"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied."
"All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy."
"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently."
"If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious."
"Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing."
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"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either."
"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."
"They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned."
"I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision."
"One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice."
"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
"The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction."
"This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue."
"Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can."
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