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QUOTABLE

"The movies, of course, provide a perpetually frustrating occupation, not unlike the search for the Holy Grail, or the passionate pursuit of girls who never kept any appointment and finally turn out to have left for New Zealand with no forwarding address. In this way films have always seemed to me a world apart. When I wrote novels they appeared, however temporarily, in print. When I wrote plays none of them failed to be performed. As a lawyer, my cases came on for trial. Films are different. Films evaporate. After weeks of excited work they vanish into thin air. Now you see them, now you don't and often, when you don't, it comes as a merciful release."

John Mortimer, "Clinging to the Weckage".

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