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"There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever."
"Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins."
"Without literature, life is hell."
"The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance."
"The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks beer, because he enjoys music and because he likes to dance."
"The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless."
"There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating."
Explore more quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."
"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."
"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
"If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves."
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