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"I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing."

"The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice."

"The value of human beings does not consist in their appearance."

"No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn."
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"My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father."

"We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were."

"Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed."

"We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time."

"I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer."

"I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of."

"It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question."
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