"For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are “like” everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty…"
- Louis Brooks (via thefilmcanister)
from Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em
This is a very good read!
Louise Brooks in Empty Saddles.
How to annoy Louise, from the Silent Movie Blog.
