“I do not judge them, criticise nor take sides. I address them as representatives of the human race, nothing more. Then I project a picture of the world divided against itself into countless pockets of insanity, and with it the question why this should be so? Why should semi-rational beings behave worse than those with no reason at all- Why ?”

— Desmond Leslie

The Amazing Mr. Lutterworth (1958)

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British pilot, film maker, writer, and musician 1921–2001

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