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Elia Kazan

"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul."

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"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul."

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"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."

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"But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue."

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"I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun."

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"The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell."

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"I'm not going to lie to you fellas, I've been drinking."

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"All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies."

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"Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles."

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