"If I want to transform patriotism then I do not proceed in the slightest against the fine fact of the nation but against the mixing up of the nation and the state."

-- Gustav Landauer

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“It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.”
“For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.”

Source : Alan Arkin (2011). “An Improvised Life: A Memoir”, p.51, Da Capo Press
“I hate it when bands do that; they're so proud of their new album, they have to play all of it and a couple of golden oldies.”
“But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.”
“the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.”

Source : Margaret Millar (2015). “Vanish in an Instant”, p.33, Soho Press
“For me, it's always very beautiful that you can do something today in the 21st century which is not an imitation but which has a connection to art which is 4,000 years old.”
“I made a body of work, which was like trying to make movies on a wall and was made up of all different images and materials. I had the aspiration to make movies because I thought that was the cycle. I had this insane egomaniac idea that I could make movies because I made these gigantic art projects.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“...."the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a distant piano over and over again, melting in the sun on the white pavement, lost in the fire of high noon.”

Source : Bruno Schulz (1963). “Cinnamon Shops: And Other Stories”

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