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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

Stanley Kubrick

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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Artists Criminal Weaknesses
Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
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Care Way
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
It’s crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
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Crazy Thinking
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
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
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Atheist Cosmic Mystery
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
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’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
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 dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

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