Frases de True Detective

Detective Thomas Papania: You figure it's all a scam, huh? All them folks? They just wrong?
Rustin Cohle: Oh yeah! Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey, "He said for you to give me your fucking share." People... so god damn frail they'd rather put a coin in the wishing well than buy dinner.

Detective Rustin Cohle: What do you think the average IQ of this group is, huh?
Detective Martin Hart: Can you see Texas up there on your high horse? What do you know about these people?
Detective Rustin Cohle: Just observation and deduction. I see a propensity for obesity. Poverty. A yen for fairy tales. Folks puttin' what few bucks they do have into a little wicker basket being passed around. I think it's safe to say nobody here's gonna be splitting the atom, Marty.
Detective Martin Hart: You see that. Your fucking attitude. Not everybody wants to sit alone in an empty room beating off to murder manuals. Some folks enjoy community. A common good.
Detective Rustin Cohle: Yeah, well if the common good's gotta make up fairy tales then it's not good for anybody.

Detective Martin Hart: I mean, can you imagine if people didn't believe, what things they'd get up to?
Detective Rust Cohle: Exact same thing they do now. Just out in the open.
Detective Martin Hart: Bullshit. It'd be a fucking freak show of murder and debauchery and you know it.
Detective Rust Cohle: If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward, then brother that person is a piece of shit; and I'd like to get as many of them out in the open as possible.
Detective Martin Hart: Well, I guess your judgment is infallible, piece of shit wise. You think that notebook is a stone tablet?
Detective Rust Cohle: What's it say about life, hm? You gotta get together, tell yourself stories that violate every law of the universe just to get through the goddamn day. Nah. What's that say about your reality, Marty?

Detective Rustin Cohle: Transference of fear and self-loathing to an authoritarian vessel. It's catharsis. He absorbs their dread with his narrative. Because of this, he's effective at proportion to the amount of certainty he can project. Certain linguistic anthropologists think that religion is a language virus that rewrites pathways in the brain. Dulls critical thinking.
Detective Martin Hart: Well, I don't use ten dollar words as much as you, but for a guy who sees no point in existence, you sure fret about it an awful lot; and you still sound panicked.
Detective Rustin Cohle: At least I'm not racing to a red light.

Lucy: Yeah, I know. You're kinda strange, like you might be dangerous.
Detective Rust Cohle: Of course I'm dangerous. I'm police. I can do terrible things to people with impunity.

Detective Rust Cohle: I'd consider myself a realist, alright? But in philosophical terms I'm what's called a pessimist... I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself - we are creatures that should not exist by natural law... We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, that accretion of sensory experience and feelings, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody's nobody... I think the honorable thing for our species to do is to deny our programming. Stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction - one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

Detective Rust Cohle: This... This is what I'm talking about. This is what I mean when I'm talkin' about time, and death, and futility. All right, there are broader ideas at work, mainly what is owed between us as a society for our mutual illusions. Fourteen straight hours of staring at DB's, these are the things ya think of. You ever done that? You look in their eyes, even in a picture, doesn't matter if they're dead or alive, you can still read 'em. You know what you see? They welcomed it... Not at first, but... right there in the last instant. It's an unmistakable relief. See, cause they were afraid, and now they saw for the very first time how easy it was to just... let go. Yeah, they saw, in that last nanosecond, they saw... what they were. You, yourself, this whole big drama, it was never more than a jerry-rig of presumption and dumb will, and you could just let go. To finally know that you didn't have to hold on so tight. To realize that all your life - you know, all your love, all your hate, all your memories, all your pain - it was all the same thing. It was all the same dream, a dream that you had inside a locked room, a dream about being a person. And like a lot of dreams, there's a monster at the end of it.

Detective Rust Cohle: The newspapers are going to be tough on you, and prison is very hard on people who hurt kids. If you get the opportunity you should kill yourself.

Detective Marty Hart: Do you wonder ever if you're a bad man?
Detective Rust Cohle: No. I don't wonder, Marty. World needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door.

Detective Rust Cohle: The ontological fallacy of expecting a light at the end of the tunnel, well, that's what the preacher sells, same as a shrink. See, the preacher, he encourages your capacity for illusion. Then he tells you it's a fucking virtue. Always a buck to be had doing that, and it's such a desperate sense of entitlement, isn't it?

“Surely, this is all for me. Me. Me, me, me. I, I. I’m so fucking important. I’m so fucking important, then, right?” Fuck you.
Detective Rust Cohle: There is no such thing as forgiveness. People just have short memories.

Detective Rust Cohle: You see, we all got what I call a life trap - a gene deep certainty that things will be different... that you'll move to another city and meet the people that'll be the friends for the rest of your life... that you'll fall in love and be fulfilled... fucking fulfillment... and closure, whatever the fuck those two fuckin' empty jars to hold this shit storm. Nothing's ever fulfilled, not until the very end. And closure - nothing is ever over.

Frases de Woody Allen

"There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly. The... the other important joke, for me, is one that's usually attributed to Groucho Marx; but, I think it appears originally in Freud's "Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious," and it goes like this - I'm paraphrasing - um, "I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member." That's the key joke of my adult life, in terms of my relationships with women."

"Sex is better than talk. Ask anybody in this bar. Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex."

"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland."

"If my film makes one more person miserable, I'll feel I've done my job."

"The difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody’s going to make fun of you."

"I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodelling."

"Join the army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill ’em."

"It’s much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine."

"Sex between two people is a beautiful thing; between five it's fantastic."

"I took a speed reading course and read War And Peace in 20 minutes. It involves Russia."

"It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."

"Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions."

"This year I'm a star, but what will I be next year? A black hole?"

"Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all."

"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else."

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve it by not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment."

"With my complexion I don't tan, I stroke."

"Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."

"Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end."

"I have an intense desire to return to the womb. Anybody's."

"I don't believe in science. Science is an intellectual dead end. You know, it's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants."

"I idolized Superman when I was younger. I thought he and I had a lot in common. He was always going into phonebooths and taking off all his clothes."

"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better ... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more."

"Is she kidding, talking to me like that? It's 'cause she thinks she's smarter... you know, 'cause she graduated from Vassar and I went to driving school."

"I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable."

"I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics."

"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."

"Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television."

"I have an interesting case. I'm treating two sets of Siamese twins with split personalities. I'm getting paid by eight people."

"I was thrown out of NYU [New York University] for cheating on my Metaphysics final. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me."

"I took one course in existential philosophy at New York University and on the final they gave me ten questions. I couldn't answer a single one of 'em. You know? I left ’em all blank... I got a hundred."

Allen: What are you doing Saturday night? Woman: Committing suicide. Allen: What about Friday night?

"Last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty."

"Hey, don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love."

"After that it got pretty late, and we both had to go, but it was great seeing Annie again. I realized what a terrific person she was, and how much fun it was just knowing her; and I thought of that old joke, y'know, the, this... this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, uh, my brother's crazy; he thinks he's a chicken." And the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?" The guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs." Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships; y'know, they're totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd, but, uh, I guess we keep goin' through it because, most of us... need the eggs."

"I can't express anger. That's one of the problems I have. I grow a tumor instead."

Man: You are so self-righteous, you know. I mean we're just people. We're just human beings, you know? You think you're God.
Allen: I... I gotta model myself after someone.

Man: You know, there's a word for people who think everyone is conspiring against them.
Allen: I know, perceptive.

"Plus I'll probably have to give my parents less money. It'll kill my father. He's not gonna be able to get as good a seat in the synagogue. He'll be in the back, away from God, far from the action."

[Responding to fans, sceptical of his plan to direct an opera] "I have no idea what I am doing. But incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm."

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."

"80% of success is showing up."

"Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage"

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