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I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That’s why I love coffee shops and public places – I mean, they’re all out there.

David Lynch

I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
DAVID LYNCH

Acceptance Art Expectation Life Myself People
The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Known Mystery Philosophy
I don’t like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don’t really understand the word ‘irony’ too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it’s much more exalted.
DAVID LYNCH

Absurd Try Verbal Word Yourself
Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
DAVID LYNCH

Ideas Mystery Oneself
I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.
DAVID LYNCH

Creativity Deep Effort Energy Happiness Meditation Myself Start Transcendence
A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.
DAVID LYNCH

Add Discover Ideal Movie World
It’s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you’ll be too afraid to let things keep happening.
DAVID LYNCH

Afraid Better Fear Life Yourself
New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.
DAVID LYNCH

Day Food Instagram Captions Mystery
A filmmaker doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don’t have to die to shoot a death scene.
DAVID LYNCH

Death Movie Scene Suffering Yourself
I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we’re all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.
DAVID LYNCH

Connection Existence Ideas Myself Thinking
The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
DAVID LYNCH

Childhood Disturb Happiness
Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.
DAVID LYNCH

Age Body Change Person Talk
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
DAVID LYNCH

Allow Complication Life Movie
The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Catch Ideas Love Small
Don’t make a film if it can’t be the film you want to make. It’s a joke, and a sick joke, and it’ll kill you.
DAVID LYNCH

Creation Kill Movie Yourself
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
DAVID LYNCH

Heart Top Wild World

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That’s why I love coffee shops and public places – I mean, they’re all out there.

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I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That’s why I love coffee shops and public places – I mean, they’re all out there.

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