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When I arrived at the Cathedral of Chartres, after an hour and a half on the train, I looked up and thought, great, another Gothic relic exactly like the thousand others I see every day walking around Paris. But Henry Adams did write a whole book on this cathedral, and he said that you have [...]
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Blood & Chocolate
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Give the Drummer Some
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The French Art of Stealing
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The Scarlet Dove
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A slapstick story of life in the circus, with a serious moral.
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| An atmospheric treat whose dense descriptive language draws you line by line into the claustrophobic world of Venice. As Dibdin portrays it, Venice is fetid and melancholic, and every watery byway leads to impenetrable secrets. Unfortunately, the cen...more | |
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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
― Rainer Maria Rilke
“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”
― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, A Life for a Life
― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, A Life for a Life
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Mark, thanks for the friendship. Hope it will be long and prosperious for both of us. I am a retired stage, film and television actor, screenwriter, shortstory writer, storyteller and now, author of two books. The first one, recently released through Amazon is a children's book entitled, Bears, Bicycles and Broomsticks. And now I have a novel about to be released entitled, The Legend of Joe, Willy & Red an adventure story that is also called a love story set in august of 1933. Thanks again, Jared McVay
Hey Mark...Thanks for accepting my friend request..."Give the Drummer Some" sounds good...I've added it to my "to-read" list.
