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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.

Stanley Kubrick

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Creative Force Men
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
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 love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.
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Editing Phases Thinking
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
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
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Harm Irreparable Months Shining
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
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
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.
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Heart Learning Moving
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
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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