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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.

Stanley Kubrick

I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
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Practice Punishment Violence
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
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
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
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
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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Harm Irreparable Months Shining
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
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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Atheist Cosmic Mystery
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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Upset Violence Years
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Running War Wells
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking

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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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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