The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples…

Kurt Vonnegut
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The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's. ✨ Between Time and Timbuktu. Movie script by Kurt Vonnegut et al. Preface, 1972.
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