Doris Lessing Quote
Marcel Proust died on 18 November 1922.
Marcel Proust
“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”-Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize-winning author, has died at 94 [COURTESY LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOKS]
Two books from the mid-1800s, given to me by a friend.
Antique Books: Cornell’s Primary Geography and Cushing’s Manual (Rules of Proceeding and Debate in Deliberative Assemblies). Both copies are from the 1850s.
Happy Birthday, Kurt Vonnegut! You were, are, and always will be one of my very favourite writers and humans. Your time on planet Earth made the place better for all of us. You are missed, now and forever.
U.S. Army Portrait of Kurt Vonnegut, 1940s
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”-Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
Dreams by Vittorio Matteo Corcos, 1896
Dreams by Vittorio Matteo Corcos, 1896
The Googly Eye Books tumblr is good for a few literary laughs.
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle Receives the Googly Eye Books Treatment
George Bernard Shaw
“I deal with all periods; but I never study any period but the present, which I have not yet mastered and never shall; and as a dramatist I have no clue to any historical or other personage save that part of him which is also myself…The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”-Preface to The Sanity of Art (1907), George Bernard Shaw
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