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Todd Solondz has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what…
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When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail…
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I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always…
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People cant help how they look.
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At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was…
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Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly…
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The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because…
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And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go…
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Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical…
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In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me…
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Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.
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So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.
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Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?
— Joseph Brodsky
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Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for…
— Charlie Brooker
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From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
— William Hazlitt
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Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it…
— Todd Solondz
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Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted.…
— Steven Pinker
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Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
— Emile M. Cioran
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The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
— Emile M. Cioran
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I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.
— Bill Hicks
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
— Andre Malraux
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You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's…
— Miranda July
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