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"Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway."
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"If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me."
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"When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking."
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"Immortal amarant, a flower which onceIn paradise, fast by the tree of life,Began to bloom; but soon for man's offenceTo heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows,And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life,And where the river of bliss through midst of heavenRolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream:With these that never fade the spirits electBind their resplendent locks."
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"Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway."
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"If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality."
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"That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material."
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"A book is the only immortality."
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"Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what they say, can't die, no matter what, or maybe they died a long time ago but Cecy calls, and Mother and Father call, and Grandmere who only whispers, and now they're coming and I'm nothing, not like them who pass through walls and live in trees or live underneath until seventeen-year rains flood them up and out, and the ones who run in packs, let me be the one! If they live forever, why not me?"
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"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption."
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"Man will find his own structured words,which will transfigure his into immortal."
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"It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money."
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"But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence."
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"In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death."
Death
"I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life."
Life
"There's no possible way you can get what you want."
Want
"So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple."
Dying
"Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway."
Immortality
"Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different."
People
"But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it."
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"But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live."
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