"And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too,……" — Nic Pizzolatto
"And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum."
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22 Quotes by Nic Pizzolatto
Nic Pizzolatto has 22 quotes on this site.
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Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.
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I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you…
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I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush…
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The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer,
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As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful…
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It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one.
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Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.
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I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.
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Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.
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For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
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I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.
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Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.
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When boiled down to its essence, unforgiveness is hatred.
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In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior.…
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