"I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all."
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"Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat."
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"Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us."
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"When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance."
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"I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days."
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"In a retreat the lame are formost. [In a retreat the lame are foremost.]"
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"One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army."
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"Don't fret, Grannie. We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her"
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"Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat."
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