I Named My Cat George Sanders

This may give you an idea why

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Rose, Peony and Cornflowers in a Green Vase, Odilon Redon

Medium: pastel,paper

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Bertolt Brecht, from Poems: 1913-1958; “Standing Orders for the Soldiers,”

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Miss Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, John Singer Sargent

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/miss-ellen-terry-as-lady-macbeth-1889

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I never understood Lady Macbeth so well as when someone much smarter than me pointed out that she and Macbeth have no children. She knows that in this world, all she and her husband have are what they build for themselves. That drives her to do terrible things, which drives her insane.

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Party Girl (Nicholas Ray, 1958) 

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Leonor Fini , surrealist painter ,  Paris 1937

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detail of a painting by Andrew Wyeth.

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“…roses that sometimes fly in and out of me.”

— Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton (1999); “Demon,”

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Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg, 1931)

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I have never seen a movie quite like this one.

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Rose and tulip, Edouard Manet

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/edouard-manet/rose-and-tulip-1882

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“MACBETH : Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

— William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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“How am I ever to apologize to myself sufficiently?”

— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry c. November 1931 in “Selected Diaries,”

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Les diaboliques (1955)

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L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961) dir. Alain Resnais

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Jacques Tati at his parents’ house in Yvelines, 1958. His father was Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec’s friend and the house was filled with late XIXth century artwork. Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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John Singer Sargent (detail)

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Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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