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"It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else."
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"Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him."
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"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."
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"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."
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"There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?"
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"If you sense there must be more, there is more."
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"The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person."
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"I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. make the most of every sense; glory in the beauty which the world in all the facets of pleasure reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight is the most delightful."
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"All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things."
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"Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person."
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"Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well."
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"I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old."
Old


"You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas."
Heart


"Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job."
Time


"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."
Nation


"The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle."
Art


"It's a mistake to confuse pity with love."
Love


"The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes."
Nation


"A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper."
Freedom


"When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."
Man


"There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die."
Encouragement
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