What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly … - Stanley Kauffmann

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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Stanley Kauffmann

What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible and acceptable to oneself.

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Meanwhile, however, what’s most bothersome about Pulp Fiction is its success. This is not to be mean-spirited about Tarantino himself; may he harvest all the available millions. But the way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming.

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The next great step of mankind is to step into the nature of his own mind.

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