Nic Pizzolatto

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University Teacher · Born Oct 18, 1975 · United States Of America · Male

Nicholas Austin "Nic" Pizzolatto (born October 18, 1975) is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for creating the HBO crime drama series True Detective. 2Early life Pizzolatto was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is of Italian descent. Pizzolatto grew up poor in a working-class Catholic family in New Orleans. At age five, he and his family moved to a rural area of Lake Charles, Louisiana. He graduated from St. Louis Catholic High School in 1993 and left home when he was 17. He attended Louisiana State University on a visual arts scholarship. After he graduated from LSU with a B.A. in English and philosophy, his fiction professor and mentor die

All True Detective (9)Arrogance on TV (2)Family (2)Beginning Mystery (2)Through Pain We Grow (2)Cynical (2)Pain (2)Murder (1)Fighting (1)Inattention (1)Night vs. Day (1)Just Be Yourself (1)Cities vs. Nature (1)Growth Through Violence (1)kids (1)

From “Form and Void”

“Everybody judges, all the time. Now, you got a problem with that, you’re living wrong.”

Tagged: Judgement, Humans Judge, critical mind

“Once, there was only dark. If you ask me, the light’s winning.”

Tagged: Creation, Light vs. Dark, Night vs. Day, Cosmic Battles

From “The Long Bright Dark”

“I’ll tell you guys — and believe me, past a certain age, a man without a family can be a bad thing.”

Tagged: Family, Do Men Need Families To Be Normal?

“Rust: I consider myself a realist, all right, but in philosophical terms, I’m what’s called a pessimist. Marty: Um, okay. What’s that mean? Rust: Means I’m bad at parties.”

Tagged: Pessimism, Cynical, Being Cynical, Jokes About Being Cynical, Introverts

“I think human consciousness was 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, this accretion of sensory experience…”

Tagged: Evolution Made Mistakes, Cynicism About Human Nature, Nature, Our Creation

“I was just a regular type dude, with a big ass dick.”

Tagged: Arrogance on TV, Beginning Mystery, True Detective

“I'll tell you guys, believe me, past a certain age, a man without a family can be a bad thing.”

Tagged: Arrogance on TV, Beginning Mystery, True Detective

“This place is like somebody’s memory of a town, and the memory is fading. It’s like there was never anything here but jungle.”

Tagged: True Detective

“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, an accretion of sensory, experience…”

Tagged: True Detective

“It’s all one ghetto, man, giant gutter in outer space.”

Tagged: Space, Outer Space

From “The Locked Room”

“Alaska is beautiful. It’s not Paris, but it’s clean, and it’s clear.”

Tagged: Alaska, Rural Vs. Urban, Cities vs. Nature, Beauty of Alaska

“We all got what I call a life trap, this 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. F*cking fulfillment and closure, whatever the f*ck those two……”

Tagged: True Detective

“To realize that all your life… you know, all your love, all your hate, all your memory, 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.”

Tagged: True Detective

“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. You gotta get together and tell yourself stories that violate every law of the universe just to get through the…”

Tagged: True Detective

From “The Secret Fate of All Life”

“What always happens between men and women? Reality.”

Tagged: Reality of Relationships, Breaking Up, Why Relationships End, Breaking Up After A Wedding, Men And Women

“Solution to my whole life was right under my nose— that woman, those kids— and I was watching everything else. See, infidelity is one kind of sin, but my true failure was inattention.”

Tagged: Men Regretting Cheating, Losing Your Family, Family, Inattention, What Happens When You Move Through Life With Your Eyes Closed

“In eternity, where there is no time, nothing can grow. Nothing can become. Nothing changes. So death created time to grow the things that it would kill and you are reborn but into the same life that you’ve always been born into.”

Tagged: Eternity, When Time Freezes, Fate, Eternal Return, Reincarnation

“Death created time to grow the things that it would kill, and you are reborn but into the same life that you’ve always been born into.”

Tagged: True Detective

“This is a world where nothing is solved. Someone once told me, time is a flat circle. Everything we’ve ever done or will do, we’re gonna do over and over and over again.”

Tagged: True Detective

From “After You've Gone”

“Most of the last decade I spent stone-drunk. Functional, but hammered.”

Tagged: Functioning Alcoholic, Alcohol, Drinking Too Much

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