"I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false."

-- Eugene Ionesco

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“I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.”
“The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
“All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.”
“A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.”
“People move around so much in the world, things get lost.”
“I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.”
“Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.”
“This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.”

Source : "The Thought and Character of William James, Volume 1". Book by Ralph Barton Perry, 1935.

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