“because movies were a religion in that moment, they could change you, alter your perception, you could rise toward the screen and share a moment of transcendence, all the disappointments and fears would be wiped away for a few hours in that church: movies acted like a drug for me. But they were also about control: you were a voyeur sitting in the dark staring at secret things, because that’s what movies were—scenes you shouldn’t be seeing and that no one on the screen knew you were watching.”
― The Shards
― The Shards
“Certainly, in the spring of 2013 I hadn't fucked up as many gay lives as Bill Clinton had.”
― White
― White
“All I know is that I do not believe in anything anymore and that I must find something to believe in or I will cease to be.”
― The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes
― The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes
“The only way love ever affected death was in making it more painful.”
― The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes
― The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes
“You do an awfully good impression of yourself.”
― Lunar Park
― Lunar Park
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