I want to go home.
"Tous les hommes sont menteurs, inconstants, faux, bavards, hypocrites, orgueilleux et lâches, méprisables et sensuels; toutes les femmes sont perfides, artificieuses, vaniteuses, curieuses et dépravées; le monde n’est qu’un égout sans fond où les phoques les plus informes rampent et se tordent sur des montagnes de fange; mais il y a au monde une chose sainte et sublime, c’est l’union de deux de ces êtres si imparfaits et si affreux. On est souvent trompé en amour, souvent blessé et souvent malheureux; mais on aime, et quand on est sur le bord de sa tombe, on se retourne pour regarder en arrière; et on se dit: “J’ai souffert souvent, je me suis trompé quelquefois, mais j’ai aimé. C’est moi qui ai vécu, et non pas un être factice créé par mon orgueil et mon ennui."
— Alfred de Musset, Perdican, II, 5, On ne badine pas avec l’amour
"All our ingenuity is lavished on getting into danger legitimately so that we may be genuinely rescued."
— Robert Frost
"Work is its own cure. You have to
like it better than being loved."
like it better than being loved."
— For the Young Who Want To, Marge Piercy
To Read
- Crush, Richard Siken
Prop List, Locations, Extras
Two cities, not interchangeable.
Several (eventually too many to count, but at least two per scene) gin and tonics, most with limes, house gin
Two orders of ramen noodles (one vegetable, one pork)
One antique man’s watch, gold, with a story
Two matching cell phones, checked every so often
No less than three stories of childhood adventures, each
One trip to the bathroom, each
Many interchangeable waitresses in short shorts
A sets of keys, temporarily given
Two fancy dinners, no split checks
One spilled cast-iron pan of macaroni and cheese
One HBO series, three full seasons
One walk around the block
One game of Scrabble
One game of seriously amateur poker
One park bench
A dozen bars (some locations can be repeated, some have parking lots)
A zillion cups of iced coffee. Just keep those coming. Until one character decides he likes green tea instead.
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"Pain, or damage, don’t end the world. Or despair. Or fuckin’ beatin’s. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you’ve got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back."
— Al Swearengen, Deadwood
"But I gotta tell you… I’m exhausted by my own self-righteousness. I have so many fucking opinions that feel so weighty and so relevant to the future of mankind, that I realized I’m just a fucking delusional downer. I know that sounds extreme and I don’t regret anything I’ve said, but lately I’ve become very aware that my angry outbursts serve no purpose other than to relieve some small amount of pressure from my obsessive need to be understood. And by understood, I mean loved, worshiped and adored. I’m not a dick. Okay, not all the time. For the most part, I’m a fairly reasonable dude, but when I take a hit off of any fucking injustice pipe, man, I am fucking hooked on a feeling. High on believing, that you’re in love with me."
— What started out as an Emmy rant by SOA creator Kurt Sutter but actually ended up being something else. http://sutterink.blogspot.com/2011/06/season-4-update-and-some-cuntless-emmy.html
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Rumour Has It, Adele.
