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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.

Stanley Kubrick

How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: ‘The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.’ This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don’t want this to happen to 2001.
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Appreciate Reality Secret
I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.
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Abused Alcohol Giving Used
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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Book School Years
I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
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Practice Punishment Violence
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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Darkness Life Light Meaning
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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Harm Irreparable Months Shining
The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, ‘2001’ shows that what some people call ‘god’ is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don’t understand, they call ‘god’ -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963
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Ideas Ignorance People
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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Done Jobs Story
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
I’ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
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Artists Criminal Weaknesses
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life

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