“fear started overriding my sadness: who deserved anything? We get what we get.”
― The Shards
― The Shards
“My experience of the past several years does not lend itself to the belief that good can or will defeat evil. This is not a pessimistic view, but simply an observation of facts as I have experienced them.”
― The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes
― The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes
“because movies were a religion in that moment, they could change you, alter your perception, you could rise toward the screen and share a moment of transcendence, all the disappointments and fears would be wiped away for a few hours in that church: movies acted like a drug for me. But they were also about control: you were a voyeur sitting in the dark staring at secret things, because that’s what movies were—scenes you shouldn’t be seeing and that no one on the screen knew you were watching.”
― The Shards
― The Shards
“All I know is that I do not believe in anything anymore and that I must find something to believe in or I will cease to be.”
― The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes
― The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes
“It's not the best of all worlds," says my shadow. "I make no promises, but it is the world where we belong. There will be good and bad. There will be neither good nor bad. It is where you were born and where you will live and where you will die. And where you die, I too will die. It's the natural course of things.”
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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