Greta Garbo bot

excerpts from letters and quotes from biographies. run by: @garboism and @vintageminii

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I'm so unhappy, I keep getting these frightening thoughts about the future.

Still each to his own, maybe it wouldn't be much fun if everything was easy... It's so sad that so few people understand how to live, that would be an art to be proud of.

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I was a bit odd as a child: I would never go to bed. As an adult I sleep a lot more and I can't stay up long in the evening. I have actually spent a large part of my life lying in bed. Here at the hotel, too. I can spend whole days in bed without being ill.

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— Conversations with Garbo

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I've often wanted to cry when I read the crazy things they write about me, such as my being Daddy's girl and not having had such a close relationship with my mother. It was not like that at all.

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At the bottom of the two-page, handwritlen letter, she drew a picture of a girl crying and serawled.

“Homesick”

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I never will care for anybody here. I never go to parties. I sometimes go to the cinema and see a bad film… I would like to tell (all the smiling people) here to shut up….

Oh. that it should be such a long distance from home.

Greta Garbo to Vera Schmiterlov

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God what an eternity since we saw each other. It isn’t always right what happens. Darling, now I am going to get ready, that is to say I am making myself up not just with black around the eyes so that I look like an owl. Soon the curtain will go up. Goodnight my little gal.

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Even a teenaged girl who’s very advanced can feel she can’t cope with life and commits suicide. There are all kinds of human beings in this world and they’re down in such depths you can’t even imagine it, the unfathomable depths. It’s incredible what goes on inside human beings.

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Life is full of melancholy times. These things come, but luckily they go away…otherwise we'd jump in the East River, and it’s so filthy. Some people, they go over a rooftop, that’s how bad they have it.

Greta Garbo, Walking with Garbo.

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I live in a very lonely place where I am left absolutely alone, go out for walks [and] look at the sky and the water and speak to myself.

Greta Garbo to Vera Schmiterlov

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I’m now back from my trip and tired… I was so hounded, everything was so ugly that I no longer want to travel. And the terrible sense that Europe is dead. It’s dead. Of course, this happens a lot with people one deals with, but Europe is nevertheless dead.

GG to Salka Viertel

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Now I am going down to work. Everyone is waiting and when I come down the bastards will say, “Ready for you Miss Garbo”[in English].

Darling Mimosa don’t forget me.

Greta Garbo to Mimi Pollak

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I have thought of you every day, but haven’t been able to gather myself together so that in peace and quiet I could write. It wasn’t kind of you to hit me with not standing by you. I don’t bother to look, I am so certain that there isn’t anyone else like you.

GG to Mimi Pollak

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Oh if you would come and get life moving here, you would be doing a good deed. Mimmie next season you must be coming to Stockholm. Think if you and I completely lost touch with each other.

Greta Garbo’s letter to Mimi Pollak

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Now I am lighting an abdulla cigarette with roseblad and sink into memories where your goodbye always plays the greatest role - that is to say the leading role.

Greta Garbo to Mimi Pollak

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I suppose I will just fade away here. I wrote to you that I was going to marry. I still can't quite describe my feelings in letters, but I don't think that I will ever marry. You have no idea how it hurts to be as confused and unhappy as I am.

Greta Garbo to Mimi Pollak

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I am so tired, so tired… I am so fed up with everything and so afraid because I am not old enough for all of this. I have also been very stupid. I have stayed at home from the studio for a while because I don't want to go there.

Greta Garbo to Mimi Pollack

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"I have been like a ship without a rudder – bewildered, lost and very lonely. I am awkward, shy, afraid, nervous and self-conscious about my English. That is why I built a wall of repression about myself and live behind it."

Greta Garbo for Associated Press report (1932)

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I leave as a rather unhappy young lady, as you can imagine. I am so pleased that Nisse loves you so. You deserve to be happy. You are the only one whom I confide in and I want to keep you as my friend. Don't forget me.

June, 1925, Greta Garbo to Mimi Pollak

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Greta Garbo to Salka Viertel from an undated letter.

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"I have disappeared in the wilderness. I am sitting in a little homemade house in desertland. I am practically a prisoner, because I don't want anyone to know I am here. It is very unprotected and if someone should know they might come upon me and then no peace again."