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“David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.”

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J. Hoberman

J. Hoberman is a renowned film critic, born on March 14, 1948. His critical essays are widely published in various media, offering profound insights and unique evaluations of the art of cinema. more

“Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed.”

Should Together Order Rooms Honesty Bed Pages Green Sake Appearance Passing Passings Cooks Kitchen Bathroom Stressed Living Room Cookbook Crimson Browsers

Book:Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker

Source: Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker

“That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.”

Ends Order Sex Trouble Tears Illusion Nuclear Physics Cookbook Sex Education Nuclear Physics

Book:Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker

Source: Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker

“We happen upon ourselves when nothing much happens to us, and we are transformed in the process...”

Happens Process Transformed

Author:Anthony Lane

“Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.”

Seems Process Flow Critics Selling Corporate Irony Commerce Ridicule Clueless

Author:David Denby

“The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.”

Reality Directors Degrees Saint Details Myth Rely Anchors Vigilante Small Details

Author:David Denby

“This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.”

Individual Belief Common Weapons Triumph Stubborn Decency Ordinary Man Common Decency

Book:An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda

Source: An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda

“Kindness is not an illusion and violence is not a rule. The true resting state of human affairs is not represented by a man hacking his neighbor into pieces with a machete. That is a sick aberration. No, the true state of human affairs is life as it ought to be lived.”

Men Humans States Kindness Pieces Violence Ought Illusion Sick Affair Neighbor Hacking Ordinary Man Aberration Machetes

Book:An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda

Source: An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda

“Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.”

Long Existence Our Lives Complicated Breathing

Author:Paul Rusesabagina

“We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.”

People Way Force Born Powerful Instinct Rational Herds Inexplicable

Book:An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography

Source: An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography

“Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.”

People Facts Decision Emotion Defense Justify Irrelevant

Book:An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda

Source: An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda

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