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253 weeks ago @ The Toast - Happy Beverly Crusher ... · 0 replies · +6 points
And this is from a Truman Capote interview from 1957, although there's some icky Japanese stereotyping involved:
“Because,” he resumed, wiping his hands on a small steamed towel, the usual preface to any meal served in Japan, “I’ve seriously considered—I’ve very seriously thought about—throwing the whole thing up. This business of being a successful actor. What’s the point, if it doesn’t evolve into anything? All right, you’re a success. At last you’re accepted, you’re welcome everywhere. But that’s it, that’s all there is to it, it doesn’t lead anywhere. You’re just sitting on a pile of candy gathering thick layers of—of crust.” He rubbed his chin with the towel, as though removing stale makeup. “Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.” Lowering his eyes, he looked without appetite at the food that the maid, to an accompaniment of constant giggles, was distributing on the plates. “Of course,” he said hesitantly, as if he were slowly turning over a coin to study the side that seemed to be shinier, “you can’t always be a failure. Not and survive. Van Gogh! There’s an example of what can happen when a person never receives any recognition. You stop relating; it puts you outside. But I guess success does that, too. You know, it took me a long time before I was aware that that’s what I was—a big success. I was so absorbed in myself, my own problems, I never looked around, took account."
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1957/11/09/the-...
256 weeks ago @ The Toast - An Alternative Ending ... · 2 replies · +12 points
Original Beckett:
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256 weeks ago @ The Toast - An Alternative Ending ... · 1 reply · +9 points
256 weeks ago @ The Toast - Things I Have Compared... · 0 replies · +64 points
257 weeks ago @ The Toast - The First Line Of Ever... · 3 replies · +15 points
259 weeks ago @ The Toast - That "More Than Brains... · 0 replies · +9 points
263 weeks ago @ The Toast - The Queen of Low Self-... · 16 replies · +25 points
266 weeks ago @ The Toast - High-Water Marks For H... · 0 replies · +10 points
267 weeks ago @ The Toast - Candle Scents I Would ... · 0 replies · +3 points
I miss this perfume called Jala by Calypso St. Barth that would have made an excellent candle; it smelled like a bunch of tropical flowers.
275 weeks ago @ The Toast - The Order In Which I W... · 0 replies · +18 points