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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#deal #great #great deal #knows #much

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#always #infinitely #mean #other #people

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#fiction #henry #henry james #james #mr

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#art #duty #lying #old #our

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#else #instead #instinct #might #mistakes

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#award #few #film #focus #foreign

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#door #entering #enters #got #nothing

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#critical #dark #genius #imbecile #imbeciles

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. ↗

— Billy Wilder

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