Mary on Bergman

Westley 2022-04-23 07:01:42

His view is so Scandinavian.
Cold and desolate my God I mean It'sbleak, my God. I mean,
All that Kierkegaard, right?
Only young people will eat that set because pessimism is fashionable. Real adolescent, fashionable pessimism.
I mean, the silence, God's silence.
ok yeah that's fine I mean Okay, okay, okay, I mean,
I loved it when I was at Radcliffe College myself I loved it when I was at Radcliffe...
It's nothing but people should mature, you should definitely mature but you outgrow it, you absolutely outgrow it.
Don't you understand? It's all from one person...Don't you guys see that it is the dignifying...
Psychological and Sexual Anxiety of one's own psychological and sexual hang- ups...
By attaching them to these grandiose philosophical issues?

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  • Yale: You know we have to stop seeing each other, don't you.

    Mary Wilke: Oh, yeah. Right. Right. I understand. I could tell by the sound of your voice on the phone. Very authoritative, y'know. Like the pope, or the computer in 2001.

  • Isaac Davis: You know what you are? You're God's answer to Job, y'know? You would have ended all argument between them. I mean, He would have pointed to you and said, y'know, "I do a lot of terrible things, but I can still make one of these." You know? And then Job would have said, "Eh. Yeah, well, you win."