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“Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.”
― Werner Herzog

“Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”
― Emily Dickinson

“When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

“Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane”
― Emily Dickinson

“What is your greatest ambition in life?'
'To become immortal... and then die.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

“I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Every edit is a lie.”
― Jean Luc Godard

“This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me”
― Emily Dickinson

“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

“Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Photography is truth.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

“Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. ”
― Emily Dickinson

“The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.”
― jean luc godard

“Art is a house that tries to be haunted.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

“They say that God is everywhere and yet we always think of him as somewhat of a recluse.”
― Emily Dickinson

“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it.
- Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.”
― Godard Jean-Luc

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
― Emily Dickinson

“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”
― Jean Luc Godard

“In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.

And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely.

"Everything must have a purpose?" asked God.

"Certainly," said man.

"Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God.

And He went away.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
― John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano