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“KURT. Then he does love you! ALICE. Probably. But that doesn’t stop him from hating me. KURT”
― Miss Julie and Other Plays
― Miss Julie and Other Plays
“Remember, Body… Body, remember not only how deeply you were loved,
not only the many beds where you lay,
but also those desires that flashed
openly in their eyes
or trembled in the voice – and were thwarted
by some chance impediment.
Now that all of them are locked away in the past,
it almost seems as if you surrendered
to even those pre-empted desires – how they flashed, remember,
in the eyes of those who looked at you, how they trembled
in the voice for you, remember, body.”
― Selected Poems
not only the many beds where you lay,
but also those desires that flashed
openly in their eyes
or trembled in the voice – and were thwarted
by some chance impediment.
Now that all of them are locked away in the past,
it almost seems as if you surrendered
to even those pre-empted desires – how they flashed, remember,
in the eyes of those who looked at you, how they trembled
in the voice for you, remember, body.”
― Selected Poems
“She just kept on criticizing me, but for contradictory reasons.”
― The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
― The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
“—He really is the most arrogant person I’ve ever come across. ‘I am, therefore God exists’. ALICE”
― Miss Julie and Other Plays
― Miss Julie and Other Plays
“I think most of our gestures, and even our words, are automatic. If your hand is on your knee, you didn't put it there. Montaigne wrote a wonderful chapter on this, about our hands that go where we don't tell them to go. Our hands are autonomous. Our gestures, our limbs, are practically autonomous. They're not under our command. That's cinema. What cinema is not is thinking out a gesture, thinking out words. We don't think of what we're going to say. The words come even as we think, and perhaps even make us think. In this regard, theater is unrealistic and unnatural. What I attempt with my films is to touch what's real. Perhaps I'm obsessed with reality.”
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