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“The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.”

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In the case of The Thin Blue Line, I was surprised actually by many things. I was shooting down in Texas where the actual killer David Harris lived and I interviewed the town cop. He described these guys as being David Harris' partners in crime and even though they had criminal records and had committed crimes, they sued me! More…

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There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

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Simply coming to the perpetrator and delivering the message is Nozick's definition of revenge. And in that sense, Adi is exacting revenge. When people…

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The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

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The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a…

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Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?

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I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

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Right now, we live in bad times in this country, and the fact that there are filmmakers addressing political and social issues is to…

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You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim that a…

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The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.

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[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it is always upon nothingness that God is pleased to rear His works. If at any day we accomplish some good here, the glory will certainly be His alone, since He has employed for this end instruments…

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