"Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?"

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Source : David Markson (1996). “Reader's Block”

David Markson

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“We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
“I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.”
“I've honestly been really lucky. My only jobs have been babysitting and acting.”
“We boil at different degrees.”
“So for everything I do, I'm very clear about what I'm doing, and I tell people what it's about. They get a sense of what I'm thinking. I don't let people think I'm going to write something in praise in the meatpacking industry, and then they read it and it's actually attacking the meatpacking industry.”
“There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.”
“When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.”
“If you go to a film festival and watch a bunch of features and then watch a bunch of shorts, you will almost always find that the shorts are where people are taking more risks and pushing more boundaries...simply because they have much less to lose.”

Source : Source: www.cutprintfilm.com

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