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"It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones."
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"I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there."

"The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that."

"A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things."

"Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!"

"A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer."

"I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight."

"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."

"I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color."
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"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."

"Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it."

"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication."

"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."

"So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful."

"The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste."

"What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."

"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
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