Truman Capote Quote
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Happy 140th Birthday, Gertrude Stein: 3 Quotes and a Portrait
Gertrude Stein was born on 3 February 1874.
Gertrude Stein by Félix Vallotton, 1907.
“It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.”
“Let me listen to me and not to them.”
“Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous.”
[Alternative Muses] Coming and Going: James Joyce/Gene Kelly Mashup
“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”-James Joyce (born on 2 February 1882)
Gene Kelly (died 2 February 1996)
Happy Birthday, Mr. Langston Hughes!
Langston Hughes was born on 1 February 1902.
Langston Hughes by Carl Van Vechten, February 1936.
“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”-Langston Hughes
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“It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.”-Gertrude Stein
Off Topic Post: Happy Birthday, Paul Newman!
Happy birthday to my lifelong favourite actor, Paul Newman! He would have been eighty-nine today.
Paul Newman in 1954.
“If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.”-Paul Newman
What is your number one Paul Newman flick?
Leo Tolstoy Quote
Leo Tolstoy Quote
A Trio of Literary Birthdays: Burns, Maugham, Woolf
Robert Burns was born on 25 January 1759.
Robert Burns
“Let them cant about decorum, who have characters to lose!”-Robert Burns
W. Somerset Maugham was born 25 January 1874.
W. Somerset Maugham
“Impropriety is the soul of wit.”-W. Somerset Maugham
Virginia Woolf was born on 25 January 1882.
Virginia Woolf by Roger Fry
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”-Virginia Woolf
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