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"…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who."
"Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly."
"The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks."
"Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship."
"Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em; / Thought is free."
"I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire."
"I will make thee think thy swan a crow."
"I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me."
"The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death."
"I don't why whatever works and whatever doesn't. You just make the film that you enjoy making at the time, and you think there's a good chance that people might enjoy the story. You're surprised pleasantly when they do. It's just luck."
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. (On the KKK)"
"I think action movies on the whole have moved more and more into large spectacle, even leaving out super hero movies that seem to me to be more a fantastic science fiction than they are action movies."
"It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose."
"I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I could. ... As writers true to ourselves, it will always be hard, and if we're good, we'll always be in trouble. Let's be sure we deserve it."
"I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality."
"I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went looking for it. My impulse is less questing and more playful. I like trying on ideas and ways of life and religious approaches. I'm just not a good candidate for conversion."
"I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me."
"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."
"I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones."
"A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good."
