Jean-Luc Godard (1930) French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic
Quoted in: Richard Roud, Godard, introduction (1970).
“What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.”
"Where are the Movies Moving?" in Essays Old and New (1926)
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Context: The fundamental act of criticism is a disinterested response to a work of literature in which all one's beliefs, engagements, commitments, prejudices, stampedings of pity and terror, are ordered to be quiet. We are now dealing with the imaginative, not the existential, with the "let this be," not with "this is," and no work of literature is better by virtue of what it says than any other work.
“O you miserable fool, what I shit is better than anything you can do.”
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Original: (de) Ach du erbärmlicher Schuft, was ich scheisse ist besser, als was du je gedacht. <br class="br">Source: Written in the margin of Gottfried Weber's negative review of Wellington's Victory in Beethoven's copy of Cäcilia (August 1825) https://books.google.com/books?id=KBuLcEJpX4sC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77
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A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
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