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"The Times apparently thought the book to be "Sexy, funny, blisteringly intelligent", but I fear my impression so far is more like "Vulgar, faintly amusing at times, and tyring", the latter because the story doesn't seem to move anywhere, it's as if the author wants to force us to sympathize with the hero by making us feel world weary ennui from tying to get through his writing." — Mar 21, 2025 10:08AM
"The Times apparently thought the book to be "Sexy, funny, blisteringly intelligent", but I fear my impression so far is more like "Vulgar, faintly amusing at times, and tyring", the latter because the story doesn't seem to move anywhere, it's as if the author wants to force us to sympathize with the hero by making us feel world weary ennui from tying to get through his writing." — Mar 21, 2025 10:08AM
“Aufklärung ist der Ausgang des Menschen aus seiner selbstverschuldeten Unmündigkeit. Unmündigkeit ist das Unvermögen, sich seines Verstandes ohne Leitung eines anderen zu bedienen.”
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“It is one thing for the gentlemen of the West to disavow colonialism and declare it dead; it is quite another thing for them to abandon the habits of colonial masters.”
― Decision in Africa: Sources of Conflict
― Decision in Africa: Sources of Conflict
“But the amazing thing about life, I've finally discovered, is that you really don't learn from past mistakes. You do logically, reasonably, but emotionally not for a second.”
― By Myself
― By Myself
“the next time he
points out the
hair on your legs is
growing back remind
that boy your body
is not his home
he is a guest
warn him to
never outstep
his welcome again”
― milk and honey
points out the
hair on your legs is
growing back remind
that boy your body
is not his home
he is a guest
warn him to
never outstep
his welcome again”
― milk and honey
“It is possible that one of the seven other major studios might have bought and made a movie from Everybody comes to Rick's, an unproduced play about a cynical American who owns a bar in Casablanca. (One producer at M-G-M, Sam Marx, did want to buy the play for $5.000, but his boss didn't think it was worth the money.) It wouldn't have been the same movie, not only because it would have starred Gary Cooper at Paramount, Clark Gable at M-G-M, or Tyrone Power at Fox but because another studio's style would have been more languid, less sardonic, or opulently Technicolored.”
― Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca--Bogart, Bergman, and World War II
― Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca--Bogart, Bergman, and World War II
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