"...people will fear you then but they won’t like you..." —from GLARE (§25) by A.R. Ammons bryanstwitter.blogspot.com/2023/11/sectio…

"...lately, my own sexual desire has waned and finally disappeared, even in dreams. And I’m delighted; it’s as if I’ve finally been relieved of a tyrannical burden." —Luis Buñuel bryanstwitter.blogspot.com/2023/11/luis-b…

"Creator of everything…judge who forgives…you who perhaps have given me the taste for horror so my heart may be converted, like healing obtained with the knife; Lord…have mercy on all mad men & women!" —from MADEMOISELLE BISTOURI by Charles Baudelaire bryanstwitter.blogspot.com/2023/10/from-m…

"I said to Him: Hear me, Thou Almighty! From this day on, I’ll be a free creator—free in my own realm, as you are in yours." —Solness, from THE MASTER BUILDER by Henrik Ibsen bryanstwitter.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-free…

"...what does she want the money for? As though the money could give her one hairsbreadth of happiness, of peace of soul. Is there anything in the world that can make her & me less enslaved to evil & to death?" —Count Bezukhov, from Tolstoy's WAR & PEACE bryanstwitter.blogspot.com/2023/10/money-…

"As for the She-Devil, I would be lying if I did not admit I found her strangely captivating at first sight..." —from "Temptations" by Charles Baudelaire bryanstwitter.blogspot.com/2023/10/from-t…

"...when one of his films came out, crowds would tear up the theater; liberal politicians would censor his works or demand that he be expelled from the country he was living in" —Juan Luis & Rafael Buñuel on their father Luis Buñuel bryanstwitter.blogspot.com/2023/10/juan-l…

"...why force my body to new places when my soul can travel so effortlessly? And why bother to see plans through, when the plan itself is pleasure enough?" —from "Plans" by Charles Baudelaire

"Natasha fell in love the moment she walked into the ballroom. She was not in love with any one in particular, but in love with every one. Whomever she looked at, for the moment that she was looking at him, she was in love with." —from WAR & PEACE by Leo Tolstoy

"There is a country which resembles you, where everything is beautiful, sumptuous, authentic, still..." —from "Invitation to a Voyage" by Charles Baudelaire bryanstwitter.blogspot.com/2023/10/from-i…

"It’s a shame that cinema wasn’t invented centuries ago. The most trivial newsreel from the Middle Ages would be marvelous..." —Luis Buñuel bryanstwitter.blogspot.com/2023/11/luis-b…