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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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“Women of Manhattan, magnificent as they were, they forgot sometimes they weren’t immortal. They could throw themselves like confetti into a fun-filled Friday night, with no thought as to what crack they fell into by Saturday.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

tags: manhattan, nyc, women

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“But it could also be an enslavement, a hell, to keep searching for the enchanted, keep plunging down, down to the lonely chambers of the sea. To seek mermaids.

It was a tragic thing to do, like looking for Eden.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

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“(On his addiction to opiods): I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.”
― Lenny Bruce

tags: addiction-to-morphine, drugs, opiates

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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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