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I don't want to make a style. Not tragedy, not comedy. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Alejandro Jodorowsky
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 7
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My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I put perfume here on the insides of my soles, I paint my left testicle red, and I write.
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I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.
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Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.
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I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now its from another century, its not for today.
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When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.
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