'Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" 

and "little bursts." Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep 

you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need

 the little bursts as well: a friendly clerk at Bradlee's, let's say, or the waitress 

at Dunkin' Donuts who knows how you like your coffee. Tricky business, really.'

 

Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout, 2008)

 

News From Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977)

 

 

Fly Away Home (Carroll Ballard, 1996) 

[*movies I saw with Dad]

 

 

 

 

 Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)

Brigitte Bardot and Jacques Charrier 1959 -1962

'

"I sulked. Sulking is a big effort. So is not writing. 

I only realized that when I did start writing. 

When I started getting real work done, I realized how much 

easier it is to write than not to write. 

Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession 

I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very 

physically wearing not to write - 

I mean if you're supposed to be writing." 

Fran Lebowitz