"There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts."

-- Bertrand Russell

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“Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.”
“A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.”
“What matters is not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do.”

Source : An "oft-repeated credo" according to the "Windsor Star", December 3, 1973.
“I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.”
“It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.”
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”
“You see a lot of these movies that are really just 90-minute video games. The effects are incredible. I get it: There's an art to that, terrific. I'm not interested in it, but there's an art to that I suppose.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 09, 2010.
“But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously...”

Source : Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.143, Everyman's Library

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