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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

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
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

might Optimism Views
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Atheist Cosmic Mystery
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
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Heart Learning Moving
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Apocalypse Program Thinking
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Book School Years
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Happiness Men Money
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
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
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

Crazy Thinking
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Upset Violence Years

I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

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