"The intensely felt subjective image is always the reason for making a first rate picture."
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"It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is..."
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"I don't try to be angry to prove something. I wouldn't try to intimidate you for any reason unless you were trying to intimidate me, and then I would show you that you can't do that to me."
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"It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life."
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"For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason."
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"To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields."
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"What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue."
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"It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons."
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"We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed."
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"There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason."
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"Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that."
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"That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel."
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"Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it."
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"I part-own a bookshop for some strange coincidence of reasons, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my life, or own in my life. I do not know, it just feels great."
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"Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required."
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"We can learn to suppress our feelings for other reasons."
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"Abstract truth is the eye of reason."
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"[Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged people. For that reason it no longer interests me."
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"I'm always trying to complicate things. For some reason I'll go, "Well, maybe I can get that in," and stuff like that. I always make it really hard for myself."
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"I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people."
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