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A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

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Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

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I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

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All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

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Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

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To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.

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I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

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For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

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The stitch of a book is its words.

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The motto was 'Pax,' but the word was set in a circle of thorns.

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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

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Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

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He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.

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A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

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The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.

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He who talks much cannot talk well.

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He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

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