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A Few Quotes in Honor of Arthur Miller’s 99th Birthday
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Happy Birthday to My Love, George Bernard Shaw!
George Bernard Shaw was born on 26 July 1856:
1909: George Bernard Shaw looking dapper in a fab suit!
“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.”-George Bernard Shaw, John Bull’s Other Island
Writers in Art: William Shakespeare
Stained glass of William Shakespeare, State Library of Victoria
Stained Glass of William Shakespeare, State Library of Victoria
[Alternative Muses] Coming and Going: Pierre-Auguste Renoir/Tennessee Williams Mashup
The Umbrellas by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (born on 2/25/1841), circa 1881-1886.
“Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.”-Tennessee Williams (died on 2/25/1983)
[Alternative Muses] Coming and Going: Noël Coward/W. Somerset Maugham Mashup
“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.”-Noël Coward (born on 12-16-1899)
Noël Coward, circa 1914
“Impropriety is the soul of wit.”-W. Somerset Maugham (died on 12-16-1965)
W. Somerset Maugham
[Alternative Muses] Coming and Going: Willa Cather/Thornton Wilder Mashup
“Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.”-Willa Cather (born on 12/7/1873)
Willa Cather, 1912
“If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good.”-Thornton Wilder (died on 12/7/1975)
Thornton Wilder’s very serious looking Yale graduation photo, 1920
So Long, Eugene O’Neill!
Eugene O’Neill died on 27 November 1953. He was sixty-five. Here he is, as a wee laddie…
Eugene O’Neill as a Child
Too adorable!
“Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.”
Reading Suggestions: Bound East for Cardiff; The Long Voyage Home; Beyond the Horizon; Anna Christie; Desire Under the Elms; Strange Interlude; Mourning Becomes Electra; Ah, Wilderness!; The Iceman Cometh; Long Day’s Journey Into Night; A Moon for the Misbegotten
George Bernard Shaw Shuffled Off This Mortal Coil 63 Years Ago Today
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
[Alternative Muses] Writerly Style: George Bernard Shaw Demonstrates How to Wear a Suit
George Bernard Shaw wore suits almost as well as he wrote plays. Case in point:
George Bernard Shaw, 1909.
The hat is a nice touch.
George Bernard Shaw, 1914.
Hmm. This looks familiar.
George Bernard Shaw, 1946.
Jaunty at 90.
Gratuitous Book Photo of the Day: Miller
Arthur Miller, my sixth favourite playwright.
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