“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, 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…”–Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks, circa 1929
The extraordinarily gifted and intelligent Louise Brooks– dancer, actor, and writer–was born on 14 November 1906. May she never be forgotten.
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I totally agree!
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I like how she talks about learning to tell the truth in writing. There’s a lot to that.
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Sometimes it’s the most important thing!
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Yes i was just talking about this on my blog!! Fiction is shaped by emotional truth not necessarily the historical truth
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Yes, that is so true!
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