“What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.”
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More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
