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"I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything."
Music
"David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology."
Work
"Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best."
Writing
"In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer."
Control
"I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal."
Experience
"You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way."
Society
"An angel has no memory."
Memory
"Blue Movie was based on an idea that Stanley Kubrick had. Somebody came by one day with some porn footage."
Creativity
"Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party."
Party
"When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian."
Time
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