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"Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly."
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"In modern time slowness is new sickness."
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"To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains the present day. But the ground is shaky: so where can you set the foundations? An answer to this question must be found if one is to produce anything vital and hence lasting. All this disturbs me so much that I no longer like to be spoken to about it."
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"A selfie has more face and fewer feelings."
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"The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it."
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"Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and sets us apart from each other. We wander in the ambient noise, checking one more time for the flight coupon, the boarding pass, the visa. The process convinces us that at any moment we may have to submit to the force that is implied in all this, the unknown authority behind it, behind the categories, the languages we don't understand. This vast terminal has been erected to examine souls."
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"This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive."
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"These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?"
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"Everything is much easier in the half-blind and half-deaf world of modern giants that seduce processions of the blind into the world of great emptiness. In their sky the stars shine and their names live in the parallel and independently of their work."
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"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."
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"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."
Sense
"We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory."
Age
"You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them."
Travel
"I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive."
Chance
"I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor."
Culture
"I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent."
God
"All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice."
Power
"Every actor wants to direct."
Actor
"No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations."
Being
"I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go."
Tradition
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