"You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable."

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Source : "Fictional character: Maurice Oboukhoff". "The Killing", www.imdb.com. 1956.

Stanley Kubrick

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“Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.”
“When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect.”
“Everything is a version of something else.”

Source : Patrick Marber (1999). “Closer”, p.63, Grove Press
“It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models... Your generation enabled America to close out the twentieth century as the greatest nation in the history of mankind, the only remaining superpower, the world's leading economy and the world's most respected and feared military force in the world- respected by our friends and allies, feared by our adversaries.”

Source : "Rising Sons: The Japanese American GIs Who Fought for the United States". Book by Bill Yenne, 2007.
“I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust”
“We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and itâ€™s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living â€” the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living â€” is play. Art and play.”

Source : "How Might Video Games Be Good for Us?" by Jane McGonigal, www.bigquestionsonline.com. October 15, 2012.
“Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.”
“One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.”

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