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“Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a sheer rock over the sea: a house that is the spectre, the secret image of prison. The image of my nostalgia. Maybe I never desired, not even then, to escape from jail. Man is not meant to live freely in freedom, but to be free inside a prison.”
― Fughe in prigione
― Fughe in prigione
“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?”
― American Psycho
― American Psycho
“When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.”
― The Rules of Attraction
― The Rules of Attraction
“Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.”
― In Cold Blood
― In Cold Blood
“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't care.”
― Women
― Women
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