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“The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives...”

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“People usually told him the same joke two or three times.”

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For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel,…

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Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.

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“For me, all signifiers fit me, one as well as another. I am rascal, hero, craven, brave, treacherous, loyal, at once the secret hero…

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Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

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