#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

"""
Quotations.
"""

__version__ = '4.0'


    # More real quotations here: http://www.quotegarden.com
    # But actuall we should make/extend a fake quotations machine.
content = {
    'quotation': ['<#quotation_cinema#>', '<#quotation_literature#>'],
    'quotation_cinema': [
        'Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. ~Roman Polanski',
        'Acting:  An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing. ~Ralph Richardson',
        'Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. ~Alfred Hitchcock',
        'Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. ~John LeCarre',
        'The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. ~Alfred Hitchcock',
        'A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. ~Alfred Hitchcock',
        'A sequel is an admission that you’ve been reduced to imitating yourself. ~Don Marquisv',
        'Never judge a book by its movie. ~J.W. Eagan',
        'I’ve spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience. ~Wilson Mizner',
        'Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ~Jessamyn West',
        'Most horror movies are certainly that. ~Brendan Francis',
        """You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather.  
            Later he played my father and finally he played my husband.  If he had lived I’m sure I would have played his mother.  
            That's the way it is in Hollywood.  The men get younger and the women get older. ~Lillian Gish""",
        'What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out. ~Agnes Repplier',
        'What I’ve learned is that life is too short and movies are too long. ~Denis Leary',
        'There are only three ages for women in Hollywood - Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy. ~Goldie Hawn',
        'Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. ~River Phoenix',
        'Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing? ~Samuel Goldwyn',
        """The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won’t walk backwards.  
            A horror fan won’t walk backwards because he knows he’ll be knifed by a madman.  
            A science fiction fan won’t walk backwards because he knows he‘ll step on the cat. ~Aaron Allston""",
        'It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around. ~Mary Pickford',
        'A play should give you something to think about.  When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can’t be much good. ~T.S. Eliot, New York Post, 22 September 1963',
        'Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one? ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827',
        'Rated G is nobody gets the girl.  PG is the good guy gets the girl.  R is the bad guy gets the girl.  XXX is everybody gets the girl. ~Author Unknown',
        'Movie-making is the process of turning money into light.  All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall. ~John Boorman, Money into Light, 1985',
        'There’s no thief like a bad movie. ~Sam Ewing',
        'If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches. ~Norman McLaren',
    ],
    'quotation_literature': [
        'Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.  ~Ezra Pound',
        'A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.  ~Mark Twain',
        'Literature is the question minus the answer.  ~Roland Barthes',
        'Literature is news that stays news.  ~Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading, 1934',
        'When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.  But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.  ~Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, 1842',
        'Every man’s memory is his private literature.  ~Aldous Huxley',
        'What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.  ~E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951',
        'I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.  ~Richard Livingstone',
        'What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!  ~James Russell LowellvThe duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light.  If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.  ~Anatole France',
        'When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before.  You see more in you than there was before.  ~Clifton Fadiman',
        'The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.  ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891',
        'The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition.  We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.  ~Samual McChord Crothers',
        'A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.  ~Italo Calvino, The Literature Machine',                       
    ],
}
