Saturday, 20 April 2019

The Richard Burton Diaries




21st August 1969


Yesterday was another terrible day, insulting Elizabeth, drunk, periodically excusing myself rather shabily, and then starting the rough treatment all over again.


Sometimes, I am so much My Father's Son that I give myself the occasional creeps - He had the same gift for damaging with the tongue, he had the same, temporary violence. 






“It’s not my province. 

I give it away.

Give it to My Family.

Or — I Buy Enormous Presents for Elizabeth Taylor. Or Did.


The fact that I have been able to take care of a certain amount of people has given me some pleasure — the fact that I had the power  to do it.


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