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“That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta.”
― Hollywood: A Semi-Autobiographical Novel About Adapting Barfly into a Screenplay and Surviving the Movie Industry
― Hollywood: A Semi-Autobiographical Novel About Adapting Barfly into a Screenplay and Surviving the Movie Industry
“I guess our lives are all dreams – as real to us as they are meaningless to everyone else.”
― The Tsar of Love and Techno
― The Tsar of Love and Techno
“Such uncanny serenity actually frightened him, making him think that perhaps this was a surface impression left behind after any amount of unspeakable viciousness had been digested, or else settled down inside her as a kind of sediment.”
― The Vegetarian
― The Vegetarian
“There are so many paths to contentment if you're open to self-delusion.”
― The Tsar of Love and Techno
― The Tsar of Love and Techno
“It is perhaps rather fine, after all, being dead. Highly underrated in the modern western world.”
― Autumn
― Autumn
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