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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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"I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it."
Humor
"Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying."
People
"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power."
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."
Reality
"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."
Dream
"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
Space
"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."
Environment
"I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue."
Writing
"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."
Movies
"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."
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"Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look."
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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."
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"The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom."
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"Leisure time is when your wife can't find you."
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"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."
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Personal Development
"Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience."
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"I had never been a dresser. My shirts were all faded and shrunken, 5 or 6 years old, threadbare. My pants the same. I hated department stores, I hated the clerks, they acted so superior, they seemed to know the secret of life, they had a confidence I didn't possess. My shoes were always broken down and old, I disliked shoe stores too. I never purchased anything until it was completely unusable, and that included automobiles. It wasn't a matter of thrift, I just couldn't bear to be a buyer needing a seller, seller being so handsome and aloof and superior. Besides, it all took time, time when you could just be laying around and drinking."
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"An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man eats that which he buys, prepares, served and eaten with lots of respect."
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"Never miss day without a walk."
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"I could take a shower every day in my own bathroom. I almost didn't know what to do with such luxury. Other than, you know, not stink."
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