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"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."
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"With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext."
"I still find the moon more amazing than the fact men have walked on it."
"I remember a cartoon depicting a chimney sweep falling from the roof of a tall building and noticing on the way that a signboard had one word spelled wrong, and wondering in his headlong flight why nobody had thought of correcting it. In a sense, we all are crashing to our death from the top story of our birth to the flat stones of the churchyard and wondering with an immortal Alice in Wonderland at the patterns of the passing wall. This capacity to wonder at trifles-no matter the imminent peril-these asides of the spirit, these footnotes in the volume of life are the highest forms of consciousness, and it is in this childishly speculative state of mind, so different from common sense and its logic, that we know the world to be good."
"When a beautiful reality looks unreal, you will realize that the beauty of reality is superior to any dream whatsoever!"
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"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
"Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping."
"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do."
"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."
"I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this."
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