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“On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere. New York was the nowhere he had built around himself, and he realized that he has no intention of ever leaving it again.”
― The New York Trilogy
― The New York Trilogy
“But now and then, a woman walks up, full blossom, a woman just bursting out of her dress…a sex creature, a curse, the end of it all.”
― Post Office
― Post Office
“I swooned the first time I saw Charlo. I actually did. I didn't faint or fall on the floor but my legs went rubbery on me and I giggled. I suddenly knew that I had lungs because they were empty and collapsing.”
― The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
― The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
“In Paris, if you had no money and could not find a public bench, you would sit on the pavement. Heaven knows what sitting on the pavement would lead to in London-prison probably.”
― Down and Out in Paris and London
― Down and Out in Paris and London
“Our lawyer beat them in court by pointing out that the law barred children only from performing on a high or low wire, a trapeze, bicycle, and the like. There was not one word that made it illegal for my father to display me on the stage as a human mop or to kick me in the face.”
― Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
― Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
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