Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
STANLEY KUBRICKYou 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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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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.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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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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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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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Everybody has their black moments.
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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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I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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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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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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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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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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