“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”-Ernest Hemingway
What does this mean to you?
Do you agree or disagree with Hemingway?
Why?
Discuss!
Ernest Hemingway Quote and a Few Follow-Up Questions
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Tag Archives: Quotes
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W. Somerset Maugham Quote
Happy Birthday, Stephen Vincent Benét!
22 July 1898:
Stephen Vincent Benét, in the Yale College Yearbook (1919).
“We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.”-Stephen Vincent Benét
Daily Diversion #269: Empty Nest
This little nest, now empty, is snuggled against a trellis on the back of my grandma’s condo.
Empty Nest
“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”-D.H. Lawrence
Because This Photo of Edna St. Vincent Millay Will Always Be Extraordinary…
I have to share it with you.
Again.
It has been too long.
Edna St. Vincent Millay at Mitchell Kennerley’s house in Mamaroneck, New York (1914). Photo by Arnold Genthe.
“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.”-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Cropped black and white version.
June Round-Up: Eight Cool Posts
Weekly Photo Challenge: Muse
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.”-Rumi
Two Graves
“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
Wall of Graves
This is my entry in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Muse.
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John Cowper Powys Quote
Happy Birthday, Jean-Paul Sartre!
Jean-Paul Sartre was born on 21 June 1905:
Jean-Paul Sartre, circa 1924.
“All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.”-Jean-Paul Sartre
Happy Birthday, Mary McCarthy!
Mary McCarthy was born on 21 June 1912:
Mary McCarthy by Dick DeMarsico, World Telegram staff photographer. 1963.
“Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.”-Mary McCarthy
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