Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
— Cormac McCarthy
“That poor girl.”
The Mad Men’s writers room deserves it all.
Teetering on the edge.
Mad men S2E12: “The Mountain King” and Succession S4E6: "Living +"
Oh there is something so deeply and horrendously ironic about the fact that Shiv couldn’t be CEO. She couldn’t inherit her father’s kingdom. Her husband had to. The only way she can have it is by being a wife and a mother. Because that’s the only way a woman can have any power in the world her father created.
SUCCESSION out of context
succession as told through text posts part V
Season 6 + Doppelgängers
“It has to do with what holds people together. What is that thing that draws them? It’s a history. And it may not even be with that person, but it’s… it’s like a…. well, it’s bigger than that.”
The grounds of the hotel were symmetrically arranged, without trees or flowers, or plants of any kind. The gravel, the stone, and the marble were spread in strict array in unmysterious shapes. At first sight, it seemed impossible to lose your way. At first sight... Along these stone paths and amidst these statues, where you were already losing your way forever in the still night, alone with me.
L'année dernière à Marienbad (1961) dir.Alain Resnais
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT | 1.11 “Klimpy’s”
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT 1.11 “Public Relations”
Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait in Letters
Jackie (2016) dir. Pablo Larraín