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David Mamet quote: "Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival..."

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

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I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over. Stanislaw Lem
It's odd, though, what makes you think about the truth. It's so rarely involved in the events of your life. I quit thinking about the truth for a time then. Its finer points seems impossible to find among the facts. Richard Ford
Tom Bergeron quote: "I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not..."
I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards. Tom Bergeron
Cecil B. DeMille quote: "The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees..."
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. Cecil B. DeMille
Alfred Lord Tennyson quote: "We needs must love the highest when we see it."
We needs must love the highest when we see it. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Douglas Adams quote: "In an infinite Universe anything can happen."
In an infinite Universe anything can happen. Douglas Adams
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it. Ignore the authors who say ‘Oh, my God, what word? Oh, Jesus Christ…’, you know. Now, to hell with that. It’s not work. If it’s work, stop and do something else. Ray Bradbury
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she..."
When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm F. Scott Fitzgerald
Martha Reeves quote: "Divas need their furs!"
Divas need their furs! Martha Reeves
Story, as I understood it by reading Faulkner, Hardy, Cather, and Hemingway, was a powerful and clarifying human invention. The language alone, as I discovered it in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Faulkner, was exquisitely beautiful, also weirdly and mysteriously evocative. Barry Lopez
Edward Young quote: "Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?"
Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies? Edward Young
Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it ... Virginia Woolf
Paul Valery quote: "The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Paul Valery
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignoranceand obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and notto admit of any hypothesis whatever, much less of any which issupported by no appearance of probability. David Hume
The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated. Bernhard von Bulow