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This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

David Lynch

I don’t like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don’t really understand the word ‘irony’ too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it’s much more exalted.
DAVID LYNCH

Absurd Try Verbal Word Yourself
I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That’s why I love coffee shops and public places – I mean, they’re all out there.
DAVID LYNCH

Absurd Coffee Myself People Place Point Weird World
I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.
DAVID LYNCH

Disturb Exploration Hide Myself Mystery Place Poetry Truth
Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you’re diving in and experiencing the Self, you’re not closing yourself off from the world. You’re strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.
DAVID LYNCH

Dive Experience Meditation Selfish Strength World
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
DAVID LYNCH

Allow Complication Life Movie
You don’t need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.
DAVID LYNCH

Meditation Place Transcendence Yourself
Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It’s a beautiful thing.
DAVID LYNCH

Beautiful Feeling Kind Music Night People Right Trouble
My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
DAVID LYNCH

Cow Myself Perspective Sight
The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
DAVID LYNCH

Artist Show Suffering
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
DAVID LYNCH

Mystery Powerful Sex Way
The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
DAVID LYNCH

Be Yourself Meditation
Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions.
DAVID LYNCH

Human Intuition Knowledge Ocean Solution Start Yourself
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
DAVID LYNCH

Play Sound Visual
Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
DAVID LYNCH

Abstract Art Sanity
Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.
DAVID LYNCH

Age Body Change Person Talk
I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.
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Absurd Confusion Darkness Happiness Safety Weird

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