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“HANNAH: Don't let Bernard get to you. It's only performance art, you know. Rhetoric, they used to teach it in ancient times, like PT. It's not about being right, they had philosophy for that. Rhetoric was their chat show. Bernard's indignation is a sort of aerobics for when he gets on television.”
― Arcadia
― Arcadia
“It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.”
― Arcadia
― Arcadia
“The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.”
― Arcadia
― Arcadia
“VALENTINE: Are you talking about Lord Byron, the poet?
BERNARD: No, you fucking idiot, we're talking about Lord Byron, the chartered accountant.”
― Arcadia
BERNARD: No, you fucking idiot, we're talking about Lord Byron, the chartered accountant.”
― Arcadia
“HANNAH: ....English landscape was invented by gardeners imitating foreign painters who were evoking classical authors. The whole thing was brought home in the luggage from the Grand Tour. Here, look -- Capability Brown doing Claude, who was doing Virgil. Arcadia! And here, superimposed by Richard Noakes, untamed nature in the style of Salvator Rosa. It's the Gothic novel expressed in landscape. Everything but vampires.”
― Arcadia
― Arcadia
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