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"I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it."
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"Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?""In the open sea," he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints."
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"Playing Solitaire is a non-smoking employee's smoke break."
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"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."
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"A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing."
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"Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one."
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"England has forty-two religions and only two sauces."
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"God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh."
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"And then Mum spoons the coffee a little as if she's having fantasies of flinging it in Britt-Marie's face. But in a controlled way."
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"Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere."
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"I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."
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"In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?"
History
"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power."
Power
"Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level."
Reality
"My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs."
Movies
"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently."
Reading
"My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor."
Humor
"I only understand realism."
Movies
"The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator."
Needs
"I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer."
Being
"The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective."
Being
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