Behave Quote by Nic Pizzolatto

“Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.”

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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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“Some people. Something happens to them. Usually when they're young. And they never get any better.”

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There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

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“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. —William Faulkner”

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For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as…

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Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.

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Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would hope is true for all adults, thought I know from bitter experience that such is not often the case. To act in a manner designed to catapult you into heaven would seem transparent to a…

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