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The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

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It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything.

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Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.

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Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

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Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.

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