Celebrity is status. It can be won and lost, doubled down on or stripped away—intrigue and happenstance, fate in conspiracy with chance. It can even be forsaken, as I had more or less done with mine. Fame, on the other hand, is territory.
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“Beware of the man who does not talk and the dog who does not bark. —Cheyenne proverb”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
“I sipped, what slid down my throat had the shininess and consistency of mercury and felt like a long snake made of ice.”
― Playworld
― Playworld
“It’s easy to be loved by the ones who’ve never seen you fuck up. The ones you’ve never had to apologize to, and who still think all your ‘quirks’ are charming.”
― Funny Story
― Funny Story
“realized that my work—and not just my work, everyone’s work, the work of all artists—was an alibi for the desire to put a frame around a certain part of life, to declare that inside the frame was art, and outside was not.”
― Blue Ruin
― Blue Ruin
“to be able to live your life without considering every action in the light of practical necessity seems to me an almost unacceptable privilege.”
― Parade
― Parade
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