“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.” PeopleWritingYearsFirstsHas BeensTwoRealEndsMatterEnoughTogetherImpossibleFitEgoExtraordinaryBlowUglyTelling The TruthShameful Author:Louise Brooks
“I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.” PeopleIfsKnivesBoresBores You Author:Louise Brooks
“Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.” PeopleThinkingWholeBeautifulGirlStupidSmartDumbGet AwaySmarter Author:Louise Brooks
“The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.” PeopleFilmTragedyMovieFilm History Author:Louise Brooks