"She seemed to have been carved either from the moon or from some rare or discontinued batch of Dresden.She fell apart very early and very quickly. I never saw cruelty or coldness in Vivien. She appeared, at a very young age, to turn into a lovely stalk of chalk, and the chipping away had begun, and you were there to see the flaking off. So many of us, I can attest, tried to do what we could, but there was - and is - nothing really to do. The destiny that gave her that magic that surrounded her came, I hate to think, with some exorbitant debts, and those debts were collected early and bluntly and swiftly.”
'I love what Tennessee said about Vivien, and I agree with him.
Let’s be gentle.'
– Alec Guinness, 1991
Plagued by delicate mental health seemingly all her life, she was chronically depressive and suffered what we now would call bi-polar but also recurrent bouts of TB saw her early death at a mere 53
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