Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Cyril Connolly
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The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
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- The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
- Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
- Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
- Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
- Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.