“50 years since I left Wichita in 1922 at the age of 15 to become a dancer with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything -- spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking.
And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart”
Louise Brooks
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“I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.” — Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
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