Red Kimono on the Roof, 1912, by John French Sloan (born 2 August 1871).
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”-James Baldwin (born 2 August 1924)
The creator of Wuthering Heights, and some truly fabulous poetry, was born on 30 July 1818. She was the weird sister, and for that I love her even more.
Emily Brontë by Branwell Brontë
A QUOTE: “If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
SOME WORKS: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell; Wuthering Heights
A KEEPSAKE:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë at Cynthia’s Attic. $24.00
Emily Brontë Quote
Hilaire Belloc was born on July 27, 1870.
Hilaire Belloc
QUOTE: “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”
SOME WORKS: The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts; Sussex; The Historic Thames; Marie Antoinette; The Servile State; Mr. Belloc Still Objects
A KEEPSAKE:
Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Verses at Vintage in Michigan. $15.00
Flamingos
“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”-Jane Austen
Mickey Spillane Quote
Miss Zizi
“The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.”-Simone de Beauvoir
Jane Austen died on 7/18/1817.
Jane Austen
“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”-Jane Austen
Clifford Odets was born on 7/18/1906.
Clifford Odets, 1936
“Life shouldn’t be printed on dollar bills.”-Clifford Odets
“Fashions fade, style is eternal.”-Yves Saint Laurent
Françoise Sagan was the ultimate cool girl writer. If you believe that style should be effortless and detached, then she is your muse. Even today, a wardrobe like hers can take you almost anywhere, and anywhere it can’t you probably don’t want to go.
The writer looking brilliantly modern. Oh, that skirt! That shirt! That hair!
Her uncomplicated look remains fresh more than five decades later. Who needs nail varnish and lipstick when you can look like this? She is proof that decadent lives do not need visible gilding. Continue reading
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.’-Albert Einstein
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