"As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture."
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"Misogyny is the death of the heart."
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"TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it."
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"Hope is a dream deferred."
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"Integrity pays, but not in cash."
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"History repeats herself."
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"I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it."
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"TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental."
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"Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings."
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"It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another."
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"I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say."
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"The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way."
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"The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated."
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"Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder."
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"I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone."
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"Secrets of the heart are seldom news."
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"For a poet, style is the only morality."
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"Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!"
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"You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy."
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"Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show."
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