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 I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God`s gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment I didn`t think then, and I still don`t, that I was actually sick.
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I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.
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I just knew that God wasn`t there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn`t found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn`t they see it? It still puzzles me.
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That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God`s gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn`t God.
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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Never console yourself into believing that the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the despicable era of Bedlam. But I must relate the horrors as I recall them, in the hope that some force for mankind might be moved to relieve forever the unfortunate creatures who are still imprisoned in the back wards of decaying institutions. -- Frances Farmer, regarding her past experience as a mental patient
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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I couldn`t get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn`t last.
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There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn`t any more, it didn`t shock me. It seemed natural and right!
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I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I`d had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
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I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn`t believe them.
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"Never console yourself into believing that the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the despicable era of Bedlam. But I must relate the horrors as I recall them, in the hope that some force for mankind might be moved to relieve forever the unfortunate creatures who are still imprisoned in the back wards of decaying institutions." -- Frances Farmer, regarding her past experience as a mental patient
Trivia
For her very special tribute appearance on "This Is Your Life" Frances was given an automobile -- an Edsel.
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The actress was the subject of several theater plays: "The Frances Farmer Story" by Sebastian Stuart, "Golden Girl" by Peter Occhiogrosso and "Saint Frances of Hollywood" by Sally Clarke.
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Her life is also profiled in the A&E documentary "Frances Farmer: Paradise Lost" (2001) directed by Lawrence Williams.
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She inspired several literature works: "God`s Peculiar Care" (1991) by `Patrick Roscoe (from the title of Farmer`s lost biographical novel), the thriller "The Canvas Prison" (1982) by Gordon DeMarco and the collection of short stories "Las fotografías de Frances Farmer" (1992) by Peruvian author Iván Thays.
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Is portrayed by Susan Blakely in Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983) (TV)
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Her rise and tragic fall were documented in the movie Frances (1982). Jessica Lange played Frances Farmer and received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her performance.
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French-Canadian singer Mylène Farmer chose her stage name in homage to Frances, and her first hit song, "Maman a tort", in 1984 was about the actress.
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Culture Club and Everything But The Girl both wrote songs about her, "The Medal Song" and "Ugly Little Dreams" respectively.
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Singer Patterson Hood included the song "Frances Farmer" in his 2004 album "Killers and Stars" which features a Farmer portrait on the cover artwork.
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Stephen Cush, a member of the British group "The Men They Couldn`t Hang" wrote a song called "Lobotomy Gets `Em Home" in memory of what was done to Frances Farmer after he saw the biographical film Frances (1982). The song appears on the album "Silvertown" (on Silvertone Records - now deleted).
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Frances Farmer My Hero - "The Unauthorized Biography" - is a rock opera based on the life of the tragic screen star.
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Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love`s daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, was not named after Frances Farmer contrary to popular belief.
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Farmer was the subject of a song "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle" on the album "In-Utero" by Nirvana.
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Married 3 times.
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