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Cinema is only true when it's not trying to be. When it's a lie.
Like much of the best literature.

David Niven, a dear comrade, often said after a few drinks: Never point your boner towards the pocket where you carry your wallet. Which, uttered by Dave in his posh accent, sounded surprisingly elegant.

Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

Not her best ~ I miss that acerbic quality that clears the air in her earlier books.

Every day in art should be like running down a hill, arms waving, shrieking.

If you draw a lovely thing, leave it.

Rembrandt lived three hundred years ago and knew far more than we do now. How is that? Why is that? Why have we gotten less skilled, less competent, less knowledgeable, less adept and versatile? How can that be?

When you see horses don't you think of Degas? He could draw two things especially well--horses and ballerinas. And floors!

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is no such sympathetic audience as an audience of Harvard men.

...she was not so low down in the world as not to know there was such a ceremony as leaving cards"

Nobody tells fibs in Boston. I don't know what to make of them all.