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Talent went out of style.… People either didn't believe Houdini when he said that his tricks on film were real, or they didn't care.

— John Leonard

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When the state murders, it assumes an authority I refuse to concede: the authority of perfect knowledge in final things.

Private Lives in the Imperial City (1979)

Every intelligent child is an amateur anthropologist. The first thing such a child notices is that adults don't make sense.

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

Private Lives in the Imperial City (1979)

The life, no matter how traumatic, never explains the work, if the work is any good.

From an international leader in the cause of human rights and democratic values, the U.S. has turned into an unaccountable bully.

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