Anaïs Nin

You know, I feel like,

you know, to quote Anais Nin,

if I may be pretentious for one second.

Absolutely.

And, and that played a huge part actually in my trusting him because I was raised, you know, in this fundamentalist Christian home, um, and, you know, was led to believe that, you know, those who believed in God were trustworthy.

And so I, you know, Anais Nin has this great line where she says, we see the world as we are not as it is.

And so I made these assumptions, um, uh, especially in the wake of, again, something I'd never really been able to heal from, which was when I was 25, my adoptive dad had suffered a traumatic brain injury.

And I needed a father, bottom line.

He worked as a postal worker at the time and came to know author Henry Miller as a co-worker.

He also met Henry in June's thruple third, Anais Nin, in France, which led to him to direct 1990's Henry in June, the first movie to earn an NC-17 rating.

Was it Fred Ward?

Fred Ward.

Let's give you some awesome quotes from various people.

This one's from Anais Nin.

Life doesn't shrink or expand on its own.

It does so in proportion to a person's courage.

yeah yeah and um The quote, the quote was a famous quote that Ted used, that Alice actually helped Ted with, right? And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

I don't know if I'm saying this correctly, but I think it was written by Anais Nin,

but it also

has, that's not 100% certain based on my research, unless you found out for certainty what that's all related to.

You know, I am large.

I contain multitudes, to quote Walt Whitman or, you know, Anaïs Nin, the French writer.

Like, it is...

It is that there are different Viveks.

us.

I mean, I read some of, not all of, but I read some of the journals of Anaïs Nin.

when I was in, I want to say when I was in college, because I remember finding them in the Boston Public Library, like volumes and volumes and volumes of Anna Easton's journals, starting when she was 12.

And I think I had already discovered her I had read Henry and June, which is, I mean, the most famous excerpt of her journals, which details her relationship with Henry Miller and his wife June and their love triangle.

Yes, this is

why we're passing it around because we're like, oh my gosh, look at this amazing sexual triad.

So I read that and then I was like, I got to find something else, you know, that Anna Eastman wrote.

And I mean, I don't even think I went.

Sometimes they end happily.

Anaïs Nin.

Again, French.

Violet Blue, who is an editor of several erotica anthologies.