"My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life."

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"My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life."

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"Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, “Yes!” He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because . . .he refuses God's way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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"Things past redress are now with me past care."

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"Hate is hostility."

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"The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy."

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"I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart."

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"I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style."

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"And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world."

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"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."

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