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I'm an atheist, and so I have a philosophical problem with demonology and supporting the mythology of Satan, which involves God and heaven and hell and all that stuff. I'm not just a nonbeliever, I'm an antibeliever - I think it's a destructive philosophy.

— David Cronenberg

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Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

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Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

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The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.

I know that many artists feel that they are frauds - that's part of the pleasure of creativity.

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

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