“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.”
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“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.”
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“A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and...”
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“I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.”
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“I like L.A., but I think what's changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.”
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“I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.”
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“To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?”
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