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Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film
Patton Oswalt
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Movies, to him and the majority of the planet, are an enhancement to a life. The way a glass of wine complements a dinner. I’m the other way around. I’m the kind of person who eats a few bites of food so that my stomach can handle the full bottle of wine I’m about to drink.”
“I've been very lucky in my life in terms of people who are able to tolerate me.”
“Take what you need from [films] and get out of the dark once in a while. You’re going to have more of the dark than you can handle, sooner than you think. The thing about the dark is it can never get enough of you.”
“Imitation leads to exhilaration when you follow it back to its source.”
“Vincent van Gogh was a “tormented genius” the way Jimi Hendrix was a “guitar player.” I”
“The man is clear in his mind. But his soul is mad.”
“Part of being in your twenties is not knowing an ally when you see one.”
“…some of us had built whole careers - pointing out how unfair and whimsical and chaotic the entertainment business was, how it rarely rewarded the truly talented. None of us could see how it never rewarded the inert”
“seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”
“Van Gogh’s paintbrush captured, like a Q-tip swabbing a germ-filled throat culture, a sample of the dirty darkness loose in the air at the end of 1888.”
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Book Keywords:
friendship, humor