Notes On Distractions

"Amory murmured. “I’m a cynical idealist.” He paused and wondered if that meant anything." — F. Scott Fitzgerald

[theroning]

Brigitte Bardot in Le Mépris (dir. by Jean-Luc Godard, 1963).

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

(Insomnia, your stare is dull and ashen. My love, forgive me this apostasy.)

Vladimir Nabokov, from the preface of Pale Fire; “An Evening of Russian Literature,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[grandrieux]

[freshmoviequotes]

Loving Vincent (2017)

[ddzzaaii]

chungking express dir. wong kar wai

[mnal-1]

Summer with Monika - 1953

[love]

[notesondistractions]

And I never found out things-those Strange eyes of his-what colour? Everything trembling and singing and Were you my enemy or my friend, Winter was it or summer?

Anna Akhmatova (via notesondistractions)

[genecurrankelly]

[alsk00]

Wings of Desire (1987) dir.Wim Wenders

[oceanofspace]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

What a dreadful and terrible day and good too. All my pettiness and resentment and idiocy all rolled up into one day. I am stupendously disappointed in myself. Something went wrong in my head at the wrong time. Something went wrong. And will never be put right. I am, I think, sublimely selfish.

Richard Burton, from a diary entry written c. January 1968 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[theroning]

La Belle et la Bête (dir. by Jean Cocteau, 1946),

[oldhollywood-mylove-deactivated]

Audrey Hepburn as Jo Stockton

Funny Face (1957)

[perfectmistake13]

[quotemadness]

It is only once in a while that you see someone whose electricity and presence matches yours at that moment.

Charles Bukowski (via quotemadness)

[missingaudrey]

Audrey Hepburn and James Garner on the set of The Children’s Hour in 1961, by Bob Willoughby