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Notes from Underground

  And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better—cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?---Fyodor Dostoevsky ---Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky ---Notes from Underground Even now, so many years later, all this is somehow a very evil memory. I have many evil memories now, but ... hadn’t I better end my “Notes” here? I believe I made a mistake in beginning to write them, anyway I have felt ashamed all the time I’ve been writing this story; so it’s hardly literature so much as a corrective punishment.  Why, to tell long stories, showing how I have spoiled my life through morally rotting in my corner, through lack of fitting environment, through divorce from real life, and rankling spite in my underground world, would certainly not be interesting; a novel needs a hero, and all the traits for an anti-hero are expressly gathered together here, and what matters most, it all produces an unpleasant impression, for we are...
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Hope

To be human is to be a miracle of evolution conscious of its own miraculousness — a consciousness beautiful and bittersweet, for we have paid for it with a parallel awareness not only of our fundamental improbability but of our staggering fragility, of how physiologically precarious our survival is and how psychologically vulnerable our sanity. To make that awareness bearable, we have evolved a singular faculty that might just be the crowning miracle of our consciousness: hope.-- Erich Fromm


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Midnight Cowboy (1969)







"Long after it was first released, "Midnight Cowboy" remains one of a handful of films that stay in our memory after the others have evaporated"


Based on a James Leo Herlihy novel and excellent script by Waldo Salt  this is the  first British director John Schlesinger American film.
Midnight Cowboy is a touching look at the friendship between a young man and a low-level street hustler in a modern world of almost total alienation and emotional disconnection.

Midnight Cowboy became the first and only X-rated film to win the Best Picture Academy Award. (Over time, the rating was softened to an R) Superb performances and an excellent script have made this  Cult Classic easily one of the 10 best films of all time.

Joe Buck, a Texas dishwasher without family, heads east to New York to make his fortune as a stud by selling his body to all rich ladies who have been deprived of their rights by faggot eastern gentlemen.
Instead, he ends up as a  42d Street hustler whose  only friend is  Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman),  low-level street hustler  from the Bronx .


https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/midnight-cowboy-1969-1




MIDNIGHT COWBOY SCRIPT 

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The Director of Outsiders

JOHN
SCHLESINGER

"I'm interested in the people who don't fit in. The people who are on the edge."








Waldo Salt

"I ended up at 50, over the hill, thinking I had no future...

 then I started to write."



EXT. HOLLYWOOD - DAY (1951)

"We are all born with human needs. The conflict between those needs and what we do to meet those needs is the drama of life."

— Waldo Salt







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Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman in "Midnight Cowboy" 1969 News Photo - Getty Images >>>

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