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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.

Stanley Kubrick

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
A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.
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might Optimism Views
There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
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Clear Enigma Personality
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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Men Symphony Writing
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
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
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Fear Marine War
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
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Individuality Monsters Perfect
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
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
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 very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen

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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