Quotes

It all starts with a comment from EW interviewer Jeff Giles, covering Pitt’s career movie by movie, that the actor looks miserable in “Interview.”

“I /am/ miserable,” Pitt said. “Six months in the f—ing dark.”

“I’m telling you, one day it broke me. It was like, ‘Life’s too short for this quality of life.’ I called David Geffen, who was a good friend. He was a producer, and he’d just come to visit. I said, ‘David, I can’t do this anymore. I can’t do it. What will it cost me to get out?’ And he goes, very calmly, ‘Forty million dollars.’ And I go, ‘OK, thank you.’ It actually took the anxiety off of me. I was like, ‘I’ve got to man up and ride this through, and that’s what I’m going to do.’ ”

…Still, he says he doesn’t necessarily regret “Interview with a Vampire.”

“I don’t lament the failures,” he said. “The failures prepare you for the next one. It’s a step you needed to take, and I’m all for it.”

Brad Pitt, in an article by Mike Scott, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Updated Nov 30, 2016; Posted Sep 24, 2011

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

Alan Cohen (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

I wanted to draw that sadness from you
so that you might be revealed
the way a city opens
on a bright landscape
[…]
how often were we here
where only silver shadows stir
only through you I had to deny myself
through you alone I knew I had no harbor
in a burning sea

Breyten Breytenbach, from “in a burning sea,” Windcatcher: New Selected Poems 1964-2006

(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007)

Maybe that’s what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.

Emily Giffin, Love the One You’re With  (via bulgakeov)

In Roman community baths, it was customary for men to stand and applaud when a well-endowed peer entered the water.

why are men so weird everywhere always (x)

i just imagined this and cannot stop loling

(via retconcorps)

‘CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR MASSIVE DONG SIR’   ‘THANK YOU SIR I INHERITED IT FROM MY PARENTS’   ‘TRULY AMAZING SIR’  
(via theinfinitejests)

Once we start calling people monsters, we start sacrificing our sense of curiosity, our obligation to ask how they became that way, and why they did what they did: life, and certainly fiction writing, is about being endlessly fascinated by the human condition–naming someone a monster is lazy; it allows you to stop thinking and questioning.

Hanya Yanagihara, Electric Literature (via kylelucia)