WillBriggs

Aspiring Private Detective / Gumshoe

[Pax Romana @cncalavia]

L'amour à vingt ans: Antoine et Colette (François Truffaut, 1962)

[Bobby Castro @BobbyCastro1994]

Fritz Lang in Le Mépris 1963 Jean-Luc Godard

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The Vatican's own private-eye. The Seville Communion reviewed. https://t.co/YqXXO7Y3dl

[The Daily @CriterionDaily]

Joseph Cotten, #BOTD, with Orson Welles during the making of THE THIRD MAN (1949).

[Crimesquad.com @Crimesquadcom]

Fabulous love letter to 'Get Carter' author, Ted Lewis from Empress of Noir, Cathi Unsworth now on Crimesquad. New re-issues of 'GBH' and 'Pender' now available! @nicktriplow @noexitpress https://t.co/KdvzRH3JvK

[Withnailizer @Withnailizer]

Monty: "I often wonder where Norman is now. Probably wintering with his mother in Guilford, a cat and rain. Vim under the sink and both bars on. But old now. Old. There can be no true beauty without decay."

[L'uomo degli abissi @Fanrizio21]

New York 1980
Bruce Davidson

[HL Mencken @HLMenckenBot]

A youth of seventeen who is not a poet is simply an ass

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Extremely funny. Very similar to a Charles Portis' book.

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“But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.”

George Eliot

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"A 'feeling of destiny' can lead into the most idiotic of servitudes."
Iris Murdoch

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“[Drunk,] F Scott Fitzgerald...sitting in the front row and beating time with an imaginary baton...had to be removed by the stagehands.”

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"What had these monks, with an obligation to dwell in all their sermons and retreats on the reality of hell, in common with this stout cheerful man who loved the smell of grease paint and the applause at a curtain fall? Perhaps nothing except the desire to drown." #grahamgreene

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Ambrose Bierce on Mark Twain's marriage: "Well, that genial spirit has passed away; that long, bright smile will no longer greet the early barkeeper, nor the familiar 'put in on my tab' delight his ear. Poor Mark!" #MarkTwain

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"I wondered what could interest me, now that I was finished with love. I could take a course in wine tasting, maybe, or start collecting model airplanes." - #Houellebecq

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"Like many unoccupied young men at the present hour he gave much attention to art, lived as much as possible in that alternative world, where leisure and vagueness are so mercifully relieved of their crudity." Henry James

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@ChuckEChaves "The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done" George Carlin

[Le Cinéma @lecinema_]

Baisers volés (François Truffaut, 1968)

Antoine Doinel, private detective.

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"The romantic personality is pervaded with a subtle mistrust of intellectualism, and this fact is often conducive to that immoral action called daydreaming. Contrary to popular belief, daydreaming is not an intellectual process but rather an escape from intellectualism." #Mishima