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• I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn…
• Masturbation is the thinking man's television.
• You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those…
• It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.
• I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
• I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become…
• I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
• To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
• If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
• You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it…
• I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.
• I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.

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