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A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slippin...

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Pauline KaelFor Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies

Never marry someone who doesn’t love the movies you love. Sooner or later, that person will not love...

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If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience a...

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Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstor...

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I like the rain. It washes memories off the sidewalk of life.

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of...

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In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They ...

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It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man.Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.

We have all sorts of conditions of booksellers: one is fanatic on the subject of libraries. He think...

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Just watch any husband arguing with his wife about something insignificant; listen to what they say ...

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That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They giv...

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Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at the...

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The literary experience extends impression into discourse. It flowers to thought with nouns, verbs, ...

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We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won’t be Joan...

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The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of ...

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If these Mount Everests of the financial world are going to labor and bring forth still more picture...

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Watching a movie for the first time is a flirt. Rewatching it, is a date.

I haven't been to a movie for three months of Sundays. I gather from what Carolyn reports that Holly...

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Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractio...

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John Kennedy TooleA Confederacy of Dunces

I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, a...

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It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree viole...

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