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" If I don't create, I don't exist. "
Ingmar Bergman
Exist
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" I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere. "
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" I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.' "
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