Posts tagged lie.

Once you get out in the night, there is a sense that civilization is gone. All the stores are closed, everything is dark and it’s a different feeling. You start to realize that the city is just a superimposed man-made convention and that the real thing that you’re living on is a planet. It’s a wild thing in nature. All the civilization that protects you and enables you to lie to yourself about life is all man-made and superimposed.

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Woody Allen, in Woody Allen on Woody Allen

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In other words, civilization ends at night. And in Gotham City, it is always night.

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