friendship and love

Retta 2022-04-20 09:02:53

This is a very literary film, I like it very much. A genius is a lunatic, a bastard, with passion, madness, paranoia, and cruelty that ordinary people cannot understand and bear. You grit your teeth with hatred, but pity and cherish him. Two old drama bones, one put and one put away. There are many touching points: the ecstasy of the manuscript being accepted, the entanglement and pain of editing the manuscript, the conflict between the writer's self and his family... I think those who have been editors and authors may be touched by it.

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  • Maxwell Evarts Perkins: [looking at the three cates containing the manuscript of Thomas Wolfe's new book] This - is Of Time and the River? Well done. Now go home and get some sleep.

    Thomas Wolfe: I... I...

    Maxwell Evarts Perkins: Let me read it.

    Thomas Wolfe: Read it kindly. Please.

  • Thomas Wolfe: I'm sorry I'm not decent enough for your fine dinner parties and your fine friends, but before you drag me out to the wood shed, I think you ought to look at who is giving the lesson. Am I supposed to grow up like you?

    Maxwell Evarts Perkins: No, Tom, but you're supposed to grow up.

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