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“Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?”
― The Great God Brown and Other Plays
― The Great God Brown and Other Plays
“Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
― A Moveable Feast
― A Moveable Feast
“You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
“I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
Contemporary Art Discourse
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Dedicated to the reading and discovering of outstanding literature on contemporary art.
Amigos Con Libros
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¡Hola Amigos! Kelly Jackson and I were talking recently about joining a book club online as a motivation to read more books and connect with other p ...more
Around the World in 80 Books
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Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or explorin ...more
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