"The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime."

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Source : Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.564, Library of America

Manny Farber

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“Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.”

Source : Chris Priestley (2010). “Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing
“However, I have a lot of greed. The types of music I want to show are on this side and on that side. Conclusively, if I'm able to make good music and people continue to look for my music, won't this kind of controversy get better... is my thought.”

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“Music's the medicine of the mind.”
“We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are other choices if only we had strength to make them. In the politics of 400 years ago, we find the same questions we battle with today.”
“Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile.”
“We started YouTube to democratize video distribution. Now, we are democratizing video creation,”
“If you look at Earth from space you see a dot, that's here. That's home. That's us. It underscores the responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
“Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]”

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