The best Quotes from Motherless Brooklyn

The best Quotes from Motherless Brooklyn

Motherless Brooklyn is a 2019 American neo-noir crime film written, produced, and directed by Edward Norton, based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Jonathan Lethem.

Power is knowing that you can do whatever you want, and not one person can stop you.
Moses Randolph
When someone isn’t seen for what they truly are, that’s a very dangerous thing.
Paul Randolph
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Okay, listen. I got something wrong with me. That’s the first thing to know. I twitch and shout a lot. It makes me look like a damn freak show. But inside my head is an even bigger mess. I can’t stop twisting things around, words and sounds especially. I have to keep playing with them until they come out right.
Lionel Essrog
He’s the one who taught me how to use my head, turn it into a strength. He gave me a place in this crappy world, until I screwed up.
Lionel Essrog
Someday I'd change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.
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Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.
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Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut?
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How strange it began to seem that cars have bodies that never are supposed to touch, a disaster if they do.
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There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.
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I'm always serious. That's the tragedy of my life.
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Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.
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Prince's music calmed me as much as masturbation or a cheeseburger.
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The wind was picking up off the ocean now and the whole coastal scene had a bleak, abandoned look, as though Maine in November really belonged to the ragged gulls who wheeled over the sun.
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