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I promised to marry just about every girl I took out

Since none of us had any money, we had to use our wits. We had to get girls to give us their apartment, come in and cook for us, bring food over. We found that trying to get along with actresses who are broke too is no good. We had to go out and find people who weren’t actresses – airline hostesses…

—p.20 Cassavetes on Cassavetes Beginnings (1929–56) (1) by John Cassavetes
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you have to fight the put-downs in yourself

Nothing changes from where you are right now. Nothing will ever change except your own attitudes. Nothing. You’ll be put down. And you’ll get better. And you’re stupid, just stupid, if you get put down and you don’t find some way to fight that put-down. The main thing of being an actor or an actres…

—p.18 Beginnings (1929–56) (1) by John Cassavetes
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you will speak for all the people who have no voice

When I got back home from Florida, I bumped into some friends of mine – funny, funny guys who said, ‘Hey, John, we just signed up at the American Academy to become actors, man! Come with us – the school is packed with girls!’ So I went home to ask my family for some loot. I went to my father and sa…

—p.14 Beginnings (1929–56) (1) by John Cassavetes
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or by going back and living it through advice/living

—After what he did, and he learned only through her suffering, Stephen brought out more loudly, —Now . . . If she comes to him carrying lilies that turn to fire? And the fire, what do you think it is? If that was the only way he could learn? So now do you see why he sends me on? If somewhere I’ve .…

—p.896 The Recognitions PART III (721) by William Gaddis
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they were all pictures of typewriters inspo/funny

Fr. Eulalio was in his twenties, a fact which he never allowed to interfere with those exercises of gravity so necessary to his profession, which was not so much being a monk, as being a Spaniard. [...] Fr. Eulalio burst in carrying a large volume under one of the brown arms of his robe. The older …

—p.859 PART III (721) by William Gaddis