Harold: Maude, they’re gonna draft me.
Maude: Well, don’t go!
Harold: They’ll throw me in jail!
Maude: Well, historically speaking, you’ll be in very good company.I seriously adore this movie so much. I fell asleep watching it last night, and decided to finish it tonight.
Harold: Maude, do you pray?
Maude: Pray? No. I communicate.
Harold: With God?
Maude: No, with life!Getting close to the end, here come the waterworks!
When frankih was here i tried to get her to watch it and she passed out on it halfway through. Although that was my fault for giving her booze i suppose. Do you remember that this is my favorite movie of all time? Not sure if it came up. I like:
Maude: I should like to change into a sunflower most of all. They’re so tall and simple. What flower would you like to be?
Harold: I don’t know. One of these, maybe.
Maude: Why do you say that?
Harold: Because they’re all alike.
Maude: Oooh, but they’re *not*. Look. See, some are smaller, some are fatter, some grow to the left, some to the right, some even have lost some petals. All *kinds* of observable differences. You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world’s sorrow comes from people who are *this*,
[she points to a daisy]
Maude: yet allow themselves be treated as *that*.
[she gestures to a field of daisies]
Maude: [cut to a shot of a field of gravestones in a military cemetery]
annnnnd this is something i use all the time:
Maude: Vice, Virtue. It’s best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much *life.* Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then you’re bound to live life fully.
(Source: atonaldissonance)
6 months ago