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"Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off."
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"Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based."

"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."

"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."

"If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious."

"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."

"It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves."

"I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth."

"There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly."
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"The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest."


"But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision."


"To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity."


"All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool."


"There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures."
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