“By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.”-Carl Sandburg
NIGHT LIGHTS:
Night lights–city lights– form their own distinct poems.
Bridge
Ball Park
Gallery: Glass floor at 1:00 AM
Bridge: Black and White
Hemingway Quote
“The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions-none more so than the most capable.”-Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser by Frank Harris, 1919
Theodore Dreiser died on 28 December 1945.
Rebecca West, who had a long, productive, and exciting life, was born on 21 December 1892:
Rebecca West
“You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.”-Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
“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 (died 15 December 1962) by Carl Van Vechten. 1940.
I’d like to wish my husband a very happy fourth wedding anniversary!
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
Emily Dickinson Quote
…to myself.
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
James Thurber, my hometown boy, was born on 8 December 1894:
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
“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”-Jimi Hendrix
Erected in the memory of…
This is my entry in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Gone, But Not Forgotten.
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