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“My friends are my "estate." Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.”
“To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations.”
“God is sitting here, looking into my very soul to see if I think right thoughts.”
“What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.”
“A totally unmystical world would be a world totally blind and insane.”
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
“One unscrupulous distortion of the truth tends to beget other and opposite distortions.”
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
“It is only by poets that the life of any epoch can be synthesized.”
“To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.”
“There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.”
“Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body.”
“Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture.”