Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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8 months ago

so many days off for weddings

“You know I hate the Circus/Magic convention. Let me do the Great American Children’s Shoe Show Extravaganza of Anaheim and get Tom to do this one.”

“Tom’s getting married that week.”

“Oh, fuck. Right.” I pause. Then: “Y’know, I’ve been meaning to mention this for some time now, but I don’t t…

—p.314 Antkind by Charlie Kaufman
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8 months ago

nescience

He is, I conclude, a poseur of the most odious sort, beloved by beret-wearing undergraduates, who, in their nescience (surely they are so nescient they don’t even know the word nescience! Ha!),

easy enough word to understand

—p.306 by Charlie Kaufman
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8 months ago

I almost got into a fistfight with Warren Beatty

In my first class, I almost got into a fistfight with Warren Beatty over the ranking of Godard’s Weekend. It was at that point the only film I’d ever seen and, therefore, I put it at number one. Beatty put it at seven because he didn’t understand it. He insisted the film was a critique of fascism…

—p.302 by Charlie Kaufman
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8 months ago

turgid

Whatever it is, it’s certain to be yet another turgid, overhyped foray into Kaufman’s self-referential, self-congratulatory psyche

—p.298 by Charlie Kaufman
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8 months ago

as a father to a daughter myself

Certainly Farrow is a filmmaker to watch. One sympathizes with her desire to separate herself from her father’s well-known surname, as well as his nose—for it seems apparent, if one compares earlier and more recent photos, Farrow has undergone cosmetic rhinoplasty. Still, one wonders if there will …

—p.294 by Charlie Kaufman