I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

Oliver Stone
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  1. Hell is the impossibility of reason.

  2. I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

  3. I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

  4. I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

  5. I study history in order to give an interpretation.

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