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“Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.”
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“I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.”
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“Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.”
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“I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.”
Source : "Opening Night" by Peter Bogdanovich, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2011.
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“Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.”
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“The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.”
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“The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.”
Source : Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks
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“The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.”