Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.
Louis de BernieresFascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal.
Louis de BernieresCompared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all youโve got is the dough.
Louis de BernieresAn adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.
Louis de BernieresIt's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are hundreds of millions of human beings in the world, and God knows how many millions of people long dead who have been lost to history, all of whom were probably special to someone.
Louis de BernieresLove is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being โin loveโ, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
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