"Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions."
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"I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.“
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"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money."
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"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends."
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"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai."
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"I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."
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"I passionately hate the idea of being with it I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."
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