"Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided ..."

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Source : Pauline Kael (1989). “Hooked”, E P Dutton

Pauline Kael

#Life Affirming Quotes #Affirming Quotes

“I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.”
“The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.”
“I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.”
“Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)”

Source : 'Journal intime' 11 February 1804, in 'Revue Internationale' 10 January 1887 p. 96 (describing a conversation with Crabb Robinson about the latter's work on Kant's aesthetics).
“It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.”
“On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years.”
“Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.”

Source : Hal Duncan (2014). “Scruffians!: Stories of Better Sodomites”, p.102, Lethe Press
“My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.”

Source : Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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