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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones. – Manuel Puig

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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing. – Manuel Puig

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movies
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It doesnt matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope. – Manuel Puig

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Hope
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. Its closer to our dreams. – Manuel Puig

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Dreams
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Other Quotes from
Fear
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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldnt like jam if it didnt, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldnt like truth if it wasnt sticky, if, from time to time, it didnt ooze blood. – Jean Baudrillard

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Fear

A line from one of my 1997 columns – Do one thing every day that scares you – is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I dont believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. – Mary Schmich

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Fear

Replace fear with gratitude, and your whole world changes. – Terri Guillemets, “A renewed outlook,” 2007

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Fear

People dont want to talk about death, just like they dont want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear. – Dan Farmer

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Fear

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Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother. – Anne Lamott

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Hope

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. – John Keats

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Death

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply. – Ulrich Beck

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Peace

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Humankind