“The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.”
― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
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In honor of Jane Austen's birthday today, what's your most controversial opinion about her books? Do you hate Mr. Darcy? Is there a movie that's better than the book? Let the people hear it!!
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), Letter II // Francis Crozier to James Clark Ross, Letter 172 (July 12th 1845), May We Be Spared To Meet On Earth
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me and the simurgh are HOW old today??? we shoulda been at the cluuubb!!!!
initial concept drawing:
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Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and writer. Was born on October 16, 1854.
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
Oscar Wilde
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HAPPY 91st BIRTHDAY, my dearest Sylvia! ♥ RIP!
(27 October 1932, Boston, USA – 11 February 1963, London, UK)
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"Not to be sentimental, as I sound, but why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?"
--The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, diary entry no. 40, 1951
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Photo: Sylvia Plath reading "Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor" in The New Yorker, August 1958, Northampton, Massachusetts
via https://www.librarything.com/profile/SylviaPlathLibrary
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napowrimo day 1 using @mercuriian‘s prompts (x): ‘lambskin’
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Absolutely loved my ARC so you know I had to get the hardcover to match my Legends & Lattes!
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Ilya Milstein
The World of Agatha Christie
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@pscentral anniversary event: get to know the members
"When I was younger, I couldn't bear all the waiting around, but now that's my favourite part. It's lovely. Some days, you come in, you have a lot to do, and some days, you can just walk past the camera, make jokes, be the life and soul of the party. I love all the anecdotes, the little jokes."
Happy birthday, Sir Tom Courtenay! (February 25, 1937)
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It is only time that weighs upon our hands.
It is only time, and that is not material.
Sylvia Plath, Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Was born on September 24, 1896.
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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