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“All of my plays are about people missing the boat coming to the end of their lives with regret at things not done.”
~ Edward Albee
♦️KURT VONNEGUT
Born on this day, in 1922
“Susan Sontag was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10% of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10% is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80% could be moved in either direction”
🔶 ARTHUR RIMBAUD
Died on this day, in 1891
I grew up listening to Serge Reggiani recite “Le Dormeur du Val”. Rimbaud was 16 when he wrote this poem.
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https://t.co/ANLPledBsx
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
~ Henry James
“I am obsessed with beauty.”
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
thanks to @coldplums
"There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost"
~ Graham Greene
“I've always had a dream of being a light-house keeper, absolutely alone, with no one to interrupt my reading or just sitting and although such dreams are sternly dismissed at 16 or so they always haunt one a bit.”
~ Elizabeth Bishop
🎨 J. M. W. Turner
“The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; the nostalgia for what never was”
~ Fernando Pessoa
CELEBRATE JOHN COLTRANE [Born on this day]
& THE AUTUMN EQUINOX [Today]
with
🍁Autumn in New York”🍁
John Coltrane & Stan Getz
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https://t.co/L2xTvgKYdu