Dorothea Tanning turned 100 on August 25th.
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As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.
― Doris Lessing When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. We do what we must, and call it by the best names. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something helpless that wants help from us. --Rainer Maria Rilke All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.- Anatole France If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.-- John Kenneth Galbraith Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. -- Philip K. Dick It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.--HG Wells. Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved. -- Anais Nin
August 2010
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This is from A Hell of a Life by Maureen Stapleton- page 179. A small story about Lillian Hellman. |
