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““Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity.””

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My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.

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“Fabulous. If you possess it, you don’t need to ask what it is. When you attempt to delineate it, you move away from it.…

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The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody…

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“If the snake sheds his skin before a new skin is ready, naked he will be in the world, prey to the forces of…

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“MATAMORE: I never fight with my love face on, I worry that it might get scratched.”

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“I never really feel that I’m stuck. I actually think that people are never stuck, there’s no such thing as writers block, I think…

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The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen -…

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Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

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The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate…

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“I've lived through such terrible times and there are people who live through much worse. But you see them living anyway. When they're more…

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