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Gary Cooper called to invite me to a dinner party he was giving for Clark Gable at his house. When I accepted and he asked if I would mind picking up Barbara Stanwyck, I was delighted. I had always thought she was one of the greatest. The Lady Eve and Double Indemnity are two of my favorite films and feature two of the many terrific performances she gave through the years. I arrived at her door promptly at 6:30 P.M., a huge bouquet of pink peonies in hand. The maid said she would be right down, took the flowers, and offered me a glass of champagne. Barbara came down a few minutes later, looking terrific in something silver and slinky. She carried on about the flowers as the maid brought them in and joined me for some champagne. I was anxious to get things off to a good start with the right kind of small talk, but unfortunately I was out of touch with the latest gossip. I asked how and where her husband was. An expletive told me how she felt about her husband: “That son of a bitch ran off with some kraut starlet.” As I struggled to pull my foot out of my mouth, she started to laugh and said, “Don’t worry about it, baby, he’s not worth sweating over,” and the rest of the evening went like gangbusters. We arrived at 7:30 on the dot and were met at the door by Rocky, Mrs. Gary Cooper, who hugged Barbara and said, “He’s going to be so glad to see you.” Cooper and Stanwyck had made a couple of great films together, Meet John Doe and Ball of Fire, the latter for Sam Goldwyn, whom she liked even though she referred to him as “that tough old bastard.” Rocky sent Barbara out to the garden to see Coop, took my arm, and showed me around their lovely home. As we walked into the garden, I spotted him laughing with Barbara. Rocky took me over to meet him. He was tall, lean, warm, and friendly. The thing I remember most about him is the twinkle in his deep blue eyes, which were framed by thick dark lashes. He was a movie star. ↗


— Farley Granger


#gary-cooper #home

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life. ↗


— Shannon L. Alder


#blinded #compassion #facts #false-interruptations #guessing

Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind. ↗


— Stephen King


#real-love #the-stand #love

I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for. ↗


— Charles Evers


#i #i believe #i believe in #most #republicans

You'll never know the the outcome unless you just go out there and just do it. ↗


— Jonathan Anthony Burkett


#better-moments #burkett #career #determination #faith

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. ↗


— Harriet Beecher Stowe


#body #brings #circumstances #confesses #does

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. ↗


— Alan Lightman


#time #dreams

Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar.  ↗


— Elise Valmorbida


#language-understanding #love

Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and in the formulation of which we contribute not one iota, apart, that is, from the words by which we clumsily name them, but everything seems to indicate that it uses these laws for aims and objectives that transcend and always will transcend our understanding. ↗


— José Saramago


#life #nature #understanding #dreams

freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity. ↗


— Gary Shteyngart


#dreams






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