Wednesday, March 03, 2004
*..bits and pieces of Valley of the Dolls..*
Lyon: "You think from day to day. If you allow yourself to think of the future - any personal future - you lose your nerve. And suddenly you recall all the senseless time-wasting you've done ... the wasted minutes you'll never recover. And you realize that time is the most precious thing. Because time is life. It's the only thing you can't get back. You can lose a girl and perhaps win her back - or find another. But a second - this second - when it goes, it's irrevocably gone."
*
Anne: Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing?
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Jennifer: That's what a great body was for, to get things you wanted.
*
Kevin: "Oh, we use sex - but in a subtle kind of way. Anne is beautiful. But she has the type of beauty women can identify with. A college girl or young matron will think she can look like Anne if she uses our product, but she would never think she could look like Jennifer. You're selling escapism in pictures - I'm selling a product."
*
Henry: "A man who could cut every tie the way Lyon does is a man who could never care deeply. Lyon is like Jennifer in a way. They fall in love, the Lyons and the Jennifers, but they can walk away unscarred. Because Number One always comes first."
*
Henry: "I'm not really in love with Helen any more, but I can't break the habit. It sneaks up on you, Anne - the habit. And after all emotion is gone and logic takes over, the habit is still there. For the rest of your life. So don't you, at twenty-two, start building any habit. Lyon isn't wasting a moment thinking about you. Believe me. And you stop thinking about him."
*
Neely O'Hara: "All i know is how to study lines, songs, dance routines, to starve, to sleep with pills, stay awake with pills. ... There's got to be more than that to living."
*
Anne: Anne felt sad. People parted, years passed, they met again - and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed and things weren't as bright or attractive as they had been. She was glad Lyon was in England. She'd hate to run into him like this, to find that his hair had thinned or that the girl he dated was too young, too insipid. It was better to keep a memory intact.
***
im hungry. i finished valley of the dolls on the train back to brooklyn tonight. i loved it, you should go buy it right now and read it. im not kidding. i got so involved in everyones lives and i identified with the characters sometimes.. like in Jennifer's last chapter.. how she feels like she's only worth her body and good for sex.. i've felt like that so many times. men are so.. mindless sometimes. even boyfriends, they fucking think they own you, and if yr tired and you say you dont want to, they keep trying until you say "ok fine" just to get it over with so you can go to sleep.. i dont even know if they're conscious of it, but you fucking dont own me just cos yr my boyfriend.. that title doesnt allow you unlimited access to me..... i dont know. it makes me mad how little men care about feelings that might get hurt or how you could fuck someone up, and how selfish they can be.. maybe its just me.
its cold in here, which is odd for me, bc its been warm the past few days, plus my mothers house is a lot warmer than our apartment.
my back hurts, im full of whine.. im still slightly glowing from last night.. i think ill do a crossword. maybe later ill type that song i wrote....
Lyon: "You think from day to day. If you allow yourself to think of the future - any personal future - you lose your nerve. And suddenly you recall all the senseless time-wasting you've done ... the wasted minutes you'll never recover. And you realize that time is the most precious thing. Because time is life. It's the only thing you can't get back. You can lose a girl and perhaps win her back - or find another. But a second - this second - when it goes, it's irrevocably gone."
*
Anne: Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing?
*
Jennifer: That's what a great body was for, to get things you wanted.
*
Kevin: "Oh, we use sex - but in a subtle kind of way. Anne is beautiful. But she has the type of beauty women can identify with. A college girl or young matron will think she can look like Anne if she uses our product, but she would never think she could look like Jennifer. You're selling escapism in pictures - I'm selling a product."
*
Henry: "A man who could cut every tie the way Lyon does is a man who could never care deeply. Lyon is like Jennifer in a way. They fall in love, the Lyons and the Jennifers, but they can walk away unscarred. Because Number One always comes first."
*
Henry: "I'm not really in love with Helen any more, but I can't break the habit. It sneaks up on you, Anne - the habit. And after all emotion is gone and logic takes over, the habit is still there. For the rest of your life. So don't you, at twenty-two, start building any habit. Lyon isn't wasting a moment thinking about you. Believe me. And you stop thinking about him."
*
Neely O'Hara: "All i know is how to study lines, songs, dance routines, to starve, to sleep with pills, stay awake with pills. ... There's got to be more than that to living."
*
Anne: Anne felt sad. People parted, years passed, they met again - and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed and things weren't as bright or attractive as they had been. She was glad Lyon was in England. She'd hate to run into him like this, to find that his hair had thinned or that the girl he dated was too young, too insipid. It was better to keep a memory intact.
***
im hungry. i finished valley of the dolls on the train back to brooklyn tonight. i loved it, you should go buy it right now and read it. im not kidding. i got so involved in everyones lives and i identified with the characters sometimes.. like in Jennifer's last chapter.. how she feels like she's only worth her body and good for sex.. i've felt like that so many times. men are so.. mindless sometimes. even boyfriends, they fucking think they own you, and if yr tired and you say you dont want to, they keep trying until you say "ok fine" just to get it over with so you can go to sleep.. i dont even know if they're conscious of it, but you fucking dont own me just cos yr my boyfriend.. that title doesnt allow you unlimited access to me..... i dont know. it makes me mad how little men care about feelings that might get hurt or how you could fuck someone up, and how selfish they can be.. maybe its just me.
its cold in here, which is odd for me, bc its been warm the past few days, plus my mothers house is a lot warmer than our apartment.
my back hurts, im full of whine.. im still slightly glowing from last night.. i think ill do a crossword. maybe later ill type that song i wrote....
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