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

Stanley Kubrick

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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might Optimism Views
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
I’ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
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Artists Criminal Weaknesses
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
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
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
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
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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Done Jobs Story
You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
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Beautiful Film Men
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
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
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 dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows

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