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"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."
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"You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures."
"The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom."
"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."
"A person who is in a constant rat race seldom has time to think whether or not he is living his life properly."
"Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar."
"The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit."
"It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want to make sure I get the facts down clearly : I'm the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two everyday running alone, not speaking to anyone as well as four of five hours at my desk, to be neither difficult or boring."
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"For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free."
"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written."
"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."
"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."
"I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful."
"The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective."
"I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing."
"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
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