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" I've always found it very sanitary to be broke. "
Orson Welles
Sanitary
Always
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" I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it. "
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" Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them. "
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" I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment. "
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" Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest. "
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" One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable. "
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