Benjamin Gwilliam

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“A Tornado knocks a house down, killing the owner, and it’s a tragedy. Then you learn a serial killer lived there and the same act becomes a miracle. The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing. Always. It never stops. Sometimes not even after death.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

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“Life is a four-letter word.”
― Lenny Bruce

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“That's what I've always found so pathetic about fans. They weep when they have a live glimpse of you, frame the fork you touched. Yet they're impervious to doing anything with that inspiration, like enriching their own lives. It drove Stanny-boy crazy. He used to say to me, 'Huey'—it was his nickname for me—'Huey, they see the films five times, write me fan letters, but the underlying meaning is lost on them. They take nothing away. Not heroism. Not courage. It's all just entertainment.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

tags: get-at-it, would-be-literary-inspiration

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“Love? Dopamine released in the brain, which gets depleted over time, leaving contempt.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

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“You'll find that great artists don't love, live, fuck or even die like ordinary people. Because they always have their art. It nourishes them more than any connection to people. Whatever human tragedy befalls them, they're never too gutted, because they need only to pour the tragedy into their vat, stir in the other lurid ingredients, blast it over a fire. What emerges will be even more magnificent than if the tragedy had never occurred.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

tags: art, artists, tragedy

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