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James Berardinelli

"Despite his reputation as one of America's foremost "serious" filmmakers, Oliver Stone's name under the "director" caption does not guarantee a good movie. I learned that lesson while enduring the seemingly-endless tedium of The Doors , and was reminded of it during some of the long, drawn-out portions of JFK . However, nothing that Stone has directed or misdirected prepared me for the grotesque mess that is Natural Born Killers ."

Source : "Natural Born Killers". Movie Review, 1994.

James Berardinelli

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“What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.”

Source : Jack Vance (2000). “Mazirian the Magician: (previously titled The Dying Earth)”, p.91, Macmillan
“Love makes you do strange things...”
“Sohn means "son" in German. I loved the idea of the word, because it's short and it was also important for me to have an "o" sound in my name. I like the idea of being the son of yourself - a bit of a rebirth, in a way. Also, I love the fact that it's such a blank word.”
“I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like a dog.”
“For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.”
“I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow.”
“God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious beauty.”
“Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.”

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