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The Dead Writers Round-Up: 22nd-24th April
- Ellen Glasgow was born on 4/22/1873. Glasgow won the Pulitzer Prize in 1942 for In This Our Life. Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland starred in the film version.
- Vladimir Nabokov was born on 4/22/1899. “A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.”
- William Shakespeare died on 4/23/1616. “He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.”
- William Wordsworth died on 4/23/1850. “To begin, begin.”
- Anthony Trollope was born on 4/24/1815. “I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.”
- Willa Cather died on 4/24/1947. “Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.”
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“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.”-Pablo Picasso
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“I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.”-Gertrude Stein
My newly acquired second-hand copy of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. Is the sticky note to highlight or to hide? I'll have to wait until page 269 to find out.
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“Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind-listen to the birds. And don’t hate nobody.”-Eubie Blake
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“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”-Pablo Picasso
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“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.”-Walt Whitman
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“The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.”-Sylvia Plath
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“Life is trying things to see if they work.”-Ray Bradbury
A Year in Books/Day 76: The Sayings of Bernard Shaw
- Title: The Sayings of Bernard Shaw
- Year Published: 1993/This Edition: 2000 (Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.)
- Year Purchased: 2002-2004
- Source: It was a gift from my Aunt Jane, purchased at Bernard’s Retail Shop in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada.
- About: This thin book contains all of Shaw’s best quotes as well as excerpts from his plays.
- Motivation: Everyone who knows me knows all about my love affair with George Bernard Shaw. I adore him; I sing his praises every chance I get.
- Times Read: Many, many, many.
- Random Excerpt/Page 17: “When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”-‘Caesar and Cleopatra’, Act III
- Happiness Scale: Off the charts.
Clipped version of picture of George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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