[Alternative Muses] Coming and Going: Maxwell Anderson/Charles Laughton Mashup

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“If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.”-Maxwell Anderson (born 15 December 1888)

Charles Laughton by Carl Van Vechten, 1940

Charles Laughton (died 15 December 1962) by Carl Van Vechten. 1940.

I Was in the Middle Before I Knew That I Had Begun

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I’d like to wish my husband a very happy fourth wedding anniversary!

Engagement Photo. November 2010.

Engagement Photo. November 2010.

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Daily Diversion #241: Early Christmas Gift…

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…to myself.

The Ballad of Joe Strummer

The Ballad of Joe Strummer by Chris Salewicz

“Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn’t have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed.”-Joe Strummer

Happy Birthday, James Thurber!

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James Thurber, my hometown boy, was born on 8 December 1894:

James Thurber by Fred Palumbo, 1954

James Thurber by Fred Palumbo, 1954

“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”-James Thurber

Also check out: A Sunday Afternoon Virtual Tour of the (James) Thurber House Museum