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"Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin."

"I could list some Japanese films illustrating this, but the last thing the audience for Memoirs of a Geisha wants to see is a more truthful film with less gorgeous women and shabbier production values."

"Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel."

"Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction."

"You don't have to be born in New York City to be a New Yorker. You have to live here for six months. And if at the end of the six months you walk faster, you talk faster, you think faster, you're a New Yorker."

"The flourishing of bursts of energy dies beyond us."

"Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are."

"The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism."

"Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion."

"...Indian cinema does not stand for just Bollywood. Kolkata is the place of Satyajit Ray..."

"The visual possibility of seeing the historical person on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity."

"As a design-scientist the artist discovers and perfects language that corresponds more directly to experience; he develops hardware that embodies its own software as a conceptual tool for coping with reality."

"That night I made copies of all the documents with shaking hands and gave them to a friend with contacts in the British secret services. I had a bitter taste in my mouth."

"Today's conventional cinema, or mass cinema, doesn't take the receiver seriously as a partner. It sees the audience member as a bank machine, whose only function is to spit out money."

"The Pink Panther is supposed to use humor to uplift. Instead, I departed this movie feeling depressed. Lifeless comedies can suck the energy out of a viewer, especially when they sully the image of an cinematic icon."

"He was certainly one of that company who tried to raise descriptions of matches from mere reporting to literature."

"This is my little disquisition about football: the quarterback, the center, and the towel."

"It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present."

"He’s almost certainly planned for the contingency of being caught. He’s rich and he’s got more lawyers than some countries have people."

"We are in danger of forgetting that God is not only a comfort but a joy. He is the source of all pleasures; he is fun and laughter, and we are meant to enjoy him."

"He stared the assorted meannesses and failed promises of American life straight in the face, and they stared back."

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🇺🇸Frank B. Wilderson III

Literature

b. 1956

"The worker calls into question the legitimacy of productive practices, while the slave calls into question the legitimacy of productivity itself."

"My four years at Berkley represent two of the happiest weeks of my life."

"Monster is a compassionate picture without any obvious agenda. And it's effective precisely because it's not a polemic."

"I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other."

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