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“It makes me happy to talk about some fundamentally good things.”

Source : "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.
“I don't know what I am going to play, so how can he know what I am going to play!”
“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”
“For 'Seabiscuit,' I interviewed 100 people I never met.”
“A hundred things may come up to distract him and attempt to drive him away, but his picture is of paramount importance.”
“For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed upon both sides, it somehow failed to bring about either the reformation or the ruin of humankind: and after the conclusion of the murdering and general breakage, the world went on pretty much as it has done after all other wars, with a vague notion that a deal of time and effort had been unprofitably invested, and a conviction that it would be inglorious to say so.”

Source : James Branch Cabell (2017). “Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances”, p.155, Wildside Press LLC
“I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter”
“Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.”

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