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"It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it's always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tenderhearted men ready to bugger everything in sight, man, woman or beast. It doesn't exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea."
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"Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills."
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"I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years."
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"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."
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"The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism."
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"The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."
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"The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing."
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"So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true."
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"After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor."
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"We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us."
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"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
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"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."
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"It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd."
Society
"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots."
Criticism
"Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT."
Intensity
"One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life."
Life
"The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens."
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"Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning."
Life
"Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself."
Life
"But you can't put fight into a man's guts if hehasn't any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that youcan't ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death.We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don't live in themoment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind."
Courage
"The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph. When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written."
Philosophy
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