lana turner
“Flapper “
The notorious character type who bobbed her hair, smoke cigarettes, drank gin, sported short skirts, and passed her evenings in steamy jazz clubs, where she danced in a shockingly immodest fashion with a revolving cast of male suitors.”
“The New Woman of the 1920s boldly asserted her right to dance, drink, smoke, and date— to work her own property, to live free of the structures that governed her mother’s generation. (…) She flouted Victorian-era conventions and scandalized her parents. In many ways, she controlled her own destiny”
Smile lovely
I want to be beautiful. I want to feel beautiful and not… Like this. Such a sad child.
Smile lovely.
The Epitaphs of Famous Authors
1. F. Scott Fitzgerald:
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
2. John Keats:
“Here Lies One Whose Name was Writ in Water”
3. Sylvia Plath:
“Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted.”
4. Robert Frost:
“I had a lovers’ quarrel with the world.”
5. Dorothy Parker:
“Excuse my dust.”
I can’t think of anything but nights with you. I want them warm and silvery, when we can be together all our lives.
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| — | Zelda to Scott, 1919 (via jaded-mandarin) |
People fall in and out of love all the time, don’t they?
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| — | F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon (via larmoyante) |
