"We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality."

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Source : Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, William Rodney Allen (2006). “The Coen Brothers: Interviews”, p.129, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Ethan Coen

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“The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word, and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is the descendent of the knight, the crusader; he is the defender of the defenseless and the champion of justice--or he is not a gentleman.”

Source : Emily Post (1922). “Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”
“Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.”
“A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.”
“There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur, they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to loose their integrity in the frailty of realization.”
“A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.”
“The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.”

Source : 1936 Scott and Scotland, introduction.
“I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got away from that for a while once we started happening, you know, selling records, sold out concerts.”
“Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study of geometry ... because they said it was so UTTERLY USELESS. There was the future of the human race almost trembling in the balance; for had not the geometry of conic sections already been worked out in large measure, and had their opinion that only sciences apparently useful ought to be pursued, the nineteenth century would have had none of those characters which distinguish it from the ancien rÃ©gime.”

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