A Brando Visitation
“The last eight, nine years of my life have been a mess,” he said. “Maybe the last two have been a little better. Less rolling in the trough of the wave. Have you ever been analyzed? I was afraid of it at first. Afraid it might destroy the impulses that made me creative, an artist. A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they’re so easily brutalized and hurt just because they are sensitive. The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs. Never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel too much. Analysis helps. It helped me. But still, the last eight, nine years I’ve been pretty mixed up, a mess pretty much. . . .”
- Truman Capote interview with Marlon Brando for the New Yorker
So how are things? They are good. They were already good, and then I came across the collected diaries of Anais Nin in the library and it made it good-er. It crystalized the goodness. It gave the goodness some shape, and direction, and much needed articulation. Things are good, but I've been a little confused or something. Something inarticulate and intangible.
It is so amazing when you come across something that can put a voice to what you are thinking, but which you are not able to realize exactly what it is that you are thinking (which makes no sense, but makes sense you know?). It helps me understand some of my current obsessive thoughts. Maybe it is helping me understand life a little better in general.
As for the Brando quote, I just really love it. I wish Marlon Brando were my friend.
- Truman Capote interview with Marlon Brando for the New Yorker
So how are things? They are good. They were already good, and then I came across the collected diaries of Anais Nin in the library and it made it good-er. It crystalized the goodness. It gave the goodness some shape, and direction, and much needed articulation. Things are good, but I've been a little confused or something. Something inarticulate and intangible.
It is so amazing when you come across something that can put a voice to what you are thinking, but which you are not able to realize exactly what it is that you are thinking (which makes no sense, but makes sense you know?). It helps me understand some of my current obsessive thoughts. Maybe it is helping me understand life a little better in general.
As for the Brando quote, I just really love it. I wish Marlon Brando were my friend.