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• The awkward truth, according to one study, is that 90 percent of 8-to-16-year-ol ds have viewed pornography online. Considering the standard climax to even the most vanilla hard-core scene today, that means there is an entire generation of young people who think sex ends with a money shot to the face.

  Gail Dines

  Sex, Mean, Thinking

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• Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends... Glass and Woolf have both broken out of the traditional realm of the story, whether literary or musical, in favor of something more meditative, less neatly delineated, and more true to life. For me, Glass [finds] in three repeated notes something of [a] rapture of sameness.

  Michael Cunningham

  Glasses, Virginia, Broken

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am someone who is fascinated with European German history, the Holocaust, and to see these parallels in our own democratic system, and then to see them come to this absolutely incredible climax, and this fruition with the election of The Donald, it was just too much.

  Hector Tobar

  Holocaust, Too Much, German History

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Sometimes you look at a painting and certain parts are so beautiful. You say, "Wow, this is fantastic," but 10 minutes later you most likely have to kill it. Every painting wants to live. You want to build and bring this type of painting to the climax. When it's at the highest point, you want more. And then if you want more, you might destroy it. So you take a chance.

  Michael Chow

  Beautiful, Chance, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Cornering is like bringing a woman to a climax. Both you and the car must work together. You start to enter the area of excitement at the corner, you set up a pace which is right for the car and after you've told it it is coming along with you, you guide it along at a rhythm which has by now become natural. Only after you've cleared the corner you can both take pleasure in knowing it's gone well.

  Jackie Stewart

  Knowing, Car, Working Together

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• A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white and color) so that when the drama-discovery is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic perfection.

  Stan Brakhage

  Drama, Black And White, Discovery

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• I love to disturb people, because only by disturbing them you can make them think. They have stopped thinking for centuries. Nobody has been there to disturb them. People have been consoling them. I am not going to console anybody... Because the more you console them, the more retarded they remain. Shog them, hit them hard, give them challenge. That challenge will bring their full capacities to the climax.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Thinking, People

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho (1986). “The Last Testament: Interviews with the World Press”, Rajneesh Foundation International

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• I describe television as feminine and movies as masculine, in the sense that television wants to examine a problem from all sides and talk about it for a long time, and movies just want to hit the climax and then maybe have a smoke.

  Joss Whedon

  Long, Television, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Needs, Violence, Madness

  Source: home.online.nl

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• Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

  Roger Kahn

  Basketball, Summer, Baseball

  Roger Kahn (1992). “Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sports”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• If you take a big epic novel and you shoot it, when you get to the editing room you notice that it has 2 million climaxes, which fill the whole 90 or 100 minutes. Then you realize you can't cut them out because if somebody is dying and you cut that out it seems like they just disappear from the film.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Cutting, Epic, Editing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue all over.

  John F. Carlson

  Powerful, Mean, Blue

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• Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.

  Margaret Craven

  Past, Rivers, Adventurous Life

  Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”

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• Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Laughter, Self, Tragedy

  "Inferior Religions" by Wyndham Lewis, 1917.

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• Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal musical means during the period from 1600 to 1900 for arousing and channeling desire.

  Susan McClary

  Mean, Expectations, Musical

  Susan McClary (2017). “Reading Music: Selected Essays”, p.147, Routledge

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• As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.

  Albert Camus

  Political, Atheism, Valhalla

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• 'Prom' is a movie that follows a bunch of high-schoolers' lives leading up to the prom, the climax of the movie. It focuses all their struggles and the social pressures that prom creates on their lives.

  Cameron Monaghan

  Struggle, Social Pressure, Prom

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language. ... Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax.

  Rebecca West

  Cat, Men, Feelings

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  War, Drama, Two

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• It was very punk rock for me to take a stab at working with Justin Bieber. I don't know how people portray that, or 'Climax,' for that matter. But for me, it was the most adventurous thing I could have done at that exact moment.

  Ariel Rechtshaid

  Rocks, People, Done

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• September is the month of maturity; the heaped basket and the garnered sheaf. It is the month of climax and completion. September! I never tire of turning it over and over in my mind. It has warmth, depth and colour. It glows like old amber.

  Patience Strong

  Maturity, Mind, Months

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• If one drops dead in the street, friends and loved ones are shocked, stricken, but a long lingering death loses all nobility and drama, while relatives and friends await the inevitable end in a succession of weary anti-climaxes.

  Alanna Knight

  Death, Drama, Relatives And Friends

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• It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.

  Patricia Moyes

  Interesting, Retrospect, Causes

  Patricia Moyes (1961). “Down Among the Dead Men”

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• Think of the centre of interest in a painting as you would read it in a novel or see it in a movie. The crisis or climax is that point when you simply can't put the book down or wouldn't dare leave the movie, for whatever reason.

  Mike Svob

  Book, Thinking, Painting

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• Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.

  Anthony Powell

  Hands, Dexterity, Emotion

  Anthony Powell (2014). “Afternoon Men: A Novel”, p.83, University of Chicago Press

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