#so

The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all. ↗

— Kim Novak

#add #alfred #alfred hitchcock #clues #ends

The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere. ↗

— Kim Novak

#begun #cans #cared #could #did

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it. ↗

— Sophocles

#borne #child #even #fearsome #give

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society. ↗

— Michael Novak

#atheists #civil #civil society #conscience #consciences

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny. ↗

— Michael Novak

#condition #default #free #history #human

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ↗

— Novalis

#heals #inflicted #reason #wounds

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home. ↗

— Novalis

#home #philosophy #properly #wish

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination. ↗

— Don Novello

#books #copied #even #exactly #follow

I've done it 30 years. I don't know what there is to gain by doing it 40. But I think there is something about doing it over that length of time that says something. That's seven U.S. presidents and five presidents of McDonald's. ↗

— Don Novello

#doing #done #five #gain #i

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions. ↗

— David Copperfield

#each #fortunate #i #i am #illusions