“Life's a struggle against acting, which claims more lives than all the other drugs of the world put together.”
― Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers
― Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers
“Watching movies simply is a promiscuous experience. The voracity it breeds! That quantity of quiddity compressed and quickened and sent at you! It's a little bit mad, isn't it, to hold a faithful flame for the one you've picked, when no such choice is required of you? The sane response to a rainbow is not to pick your favourite colour.”
― Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers
― Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers
“Her room felt wonderful to her, as usual. She looked around with satisfaction… She imagined to herself that she would always live this way, even after she had grown up and moved away from her family. She planned to have exactly the same room wherever she was, because this room was her. No matter what happened out there in the rest of the world, she felt totally comfortable once she got into this room and closed the door.”
― Nobody's Family Is Going to Change
― Nobody's Family Is Going to Change
“I think that deep inside yourself, in your heart, you're a Puritan. Yes, a Puritan. Or an ascetic; a sort of hermit monk. I think you want perfection - of yourself, of everyone - and because you can't find it you turn on it; and on yourself and everyone. Because you hate yourself, you want everyone to hate you. Because you're hurt, because you're proud - oh, so terribly proud, Claude - that's the heart of it. Sometimes I think you're not satisfied to be a human being at all. You want to be more than human: a force, a power, a sort of absolute beyond the rest of us. Like - like Lucifer, almost. Or like God Himself.”
― Day on Fire
― Day on Fire
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