At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
ORSON WELLESI don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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