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🇺🇸Cormac McCarthy

Literature

1933–2023

"People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there."

"We no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep problems: Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man?"

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🇨🇴Gabriel García Márquez

Literature

magic realism

1927–2014

"But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love."

"Thank you to every American who has not sued me so far."

"I never did theatre or took classes, which I think has helped me. I just had instincts and they were right."

"I think everyone is born with humor, but your life can beat it out of you, sadly, or you can be lucky enough to grow up in it."

"I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand."

"P.S. Managed to avoid the hoyden Emily Thompkinson, who has purloined my creation and added things of her own. Nefarious Creature!"

"Eternity is very long, especially towards the end."

"Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, unrhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go."

"Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it."

"The window opened gently and a still Autumn night entered cat-like. Edwin smelt freedom and London autumn – decay, smoke, cold, motor oil."

"Sam is the only person I've ever physically threatened on a set."

"Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment."

"But that is what life is like, uncertain, screwed at times but still fun."

"The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years."

"Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul."

"Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end."

"The use of the word "just" by an Australian means that whatever it is you have to do, it will not be easy, as in "Just pull that sword out of the stone" or "Just split that atom."

"The film needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts"

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🇫🇷Guillaume Apollinaire

Literature

1880–1918

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."

"I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries."

"Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion."

"(an anguished cry): Consistency is all I ask! (low, wry rhetoric): Give us this day our daily mask."

"Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth."

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"

"Man, I feel as though I'm standing on magic legs in a special effects process shot that is too unbelievable to imagine and far too costly to make a reality."

"When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then — he needn't hope to find himself again."

"The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art."

🇮🇹Michelangelo Antonioni

Entertainment

1912–2007

"I would like to make clear that I speak only of sensations. I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."

"It's not the despair, Laura, I can stand the despair. It's the hope."

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🇨🇦Matthew Perry (actor)

Entertainment

1969–2023

"In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way."

"When all the hope is gone, there is no reason for pessimism."

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