There are all these levels of pretension in LA. Every time you walk into a café or a bar or a restaurant in LA everybody turns around to see if you're famous. Everybody can seem like a celebrity. You can meet somebody who looks like Joe Schmoe and he turns out to be the head of HBO or something. Or you meet a person who just won an Oscar and he looks like he just won an Oscar. And it's a sprawling city, there's so many different parts to it.
You can't be a free spirit in a place that feels like it was built on lockdown. - Ottessa Moshfegh
You can't be a free spirit in a place that feels like it was built on lockdown.
- Ottessa Moshfegh
What's inspiring me the most [is] injustice. My own growth as a member of the human race, in terms of the veils being lifted, seeing more of the beau… - Ottessa Moshfegh
What's inspiring me the most [is] injustice. My own growth as a member of the human race, in terms of the veils being lifted, seeing more of the beau…
I hope that I'm the kind of person who would step in between somebody holding a gun at somebody else. I would like to be that stupid. I'd like to be … - Ottessa Moshfegh
I hope that I'm the kind of person who would step in between somebody holding a gun at somebody else. I would like to be that stupid. I'd like to be …
The thing about California is that it's kind of a dream, and I started to feel like I was living in a dream. I still feel like that. Because of that … - Ottessa Moshfegh
The thing about California is that it's kind of a dream, and I started to feel like I was living in a dream. I still feel like that. Because of that …
I live in East Hollywood which is sort of the end of the grit, butting up against Silverlake and Los Feliz which are the refined gentrified hipster z… - Ottessa Moshfegh
I live in East Hollywood which is sort of the end of the grit, butting up against Silverlake and Los Feliz which are the refined gentrified hipster z…
I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that cuts the bullshit. - Ottessa Moshfegh
I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that cuts the bullshit.
Reality is a projection of consciousness, so if you believe - more than just think - but believe, subliminally, that something is true, it will becom… - Ottessa Moshfegh
Reality is a projection of consciousness, so if you believe - more than just think - but believe, subliminally, that something is true, it will becom…
Indifference is the saddest state of being. It's like PTSD - you're not gonna fight, you're not gonna run, you're just frozen there, feeling nothing.… - Ottessa Moshfegh
Indifference is the saddest state of being. It's like PTSD - you're not gonna fight, you're not gonna run, you're just frozen there, feeling nothing.…
You know that's why people don't like unlikeable characters. It's not that they're not interesting. Everybody knows the most interesting character in… - Ottessa Moshfegh
You know that's why people don't like unlikeable characters. It's not that they're not interesting. Everybody knows the most interesting character in…
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