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The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is… — Stanley Kubrick

Interview · Magazine

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent.

Stanley Kubrick
1968
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1968
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Stanley Kubrick
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Kubrick, Stanley. "Playboy Interview: Stanley Kubrick." Interviewed by Eric Norden. Playboy, Sept. 1968.

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