"As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple."

-- Marisha Pessl

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“Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don't take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don't infer your existence from replaying what happened to you, when you don't take yourself to be the girl your mother/father/brother/teacher/lover didn't see or adore. When you sense yourself directly, immediately, right now, without preconception, who are you?”
“I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.”

Source : Jude Morgan (2011). “Indiscretion”, p.136, Hachette UK
“We live in an anaesthetized society.”
“Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.”
“Men are actually the weaker sex.”
“The effect of the corporation, under the prevailing policy of the free, go-as-you-please method of organization and management, has been to drive the bulk of our people, other than farmers, out of property ownership; and, if allowed to go on as present, it will keep them out... The paramount problem is not how to stop the growth of property, and the building up of wealth, but how to manage it so that every species of property, like a healthy growing tree will spread its roots deeply and widely in the soil of a popular proprietorship.”
“When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.”
“I think it's cool when Scorsese will pop up in a movie or something like that. I never want to make a career out of that or anything. I like directing. That's my favorite thing.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2009.

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