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"...there is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." - Wilde


[Delacroix - Dante and Virgil in Hell][Picasso - Guitarist][Beethoven - Pink Book - Andy Warhol][Mozart - Composing The Requiem - WJ Grant] Pollock: Composition

 

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

 

     Arthur Pan Sir Winston Churchill Print        http://tudorhistory.org/elizabeth/gallery.html
 http://www.edsupport.cc/mguhlin/[Van Gogh Prints - The Novel Reader]       "Thought is the parent of the deed." - Conrad 

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
- William Butler Yeats
 

                    "I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way
                                 you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will." - Eastwood
 

"It’s interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can’t, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about" - Richard Ford
                                                                                

            http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/portrait.htmhttp://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php%3Ftype%3Dde%26id%3D1937http://www2.english.uiuc.edu/baym/255/portraits.htmhttp://www.nndb.com/people/468/000022402/http://www.lib.utexas.edu/photodraw/portraits/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000063JZQ%3Fv%3Dglancehttp://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/works/work167.html

"Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe."
John Gregory Dunne

                   http://www.clubi.ie/ccaprani/authors/jk_text.htmhttp://www.angelfire.com/va/TJTruth/http://www.nps.gov/inde/visit.htmlhttp://www.columbia.edu/itc/law/witt/images/lect7/http://www.temple.edu/history/amhist2drampers.html

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

 

             [Monet Prints - Self Portrait][Monet Prints - Sunflowers]  [Cezanne Prints - Self Portrait #1]Self-Portrait Prints By Leonardo da Vinci[Van Gogh Prints - Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe][Van Gogh Prints - Wheatfield with Crows]Winslow Homer Breezing Up Print

 

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
- Victor Hugo

http://salon.blogspot.com/2002_09_01_salon_archive.htmlhttp://www.born-today.com/Today/09-23.htmDavid Bowiehttp://www.affichescinema.com/lettrea.htmlTom Waitshttp://www.rockonthenet.com/grammy/record.htmNeil Young Unplugged VHS: Standard Edition

"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life." - Franklin

Play it once, Sam. For old times' sake.http://www.snopes.com/movies/other/spielberg.asphttp://sunsite.berkeley.edu/T-Shirts/%3FSubject%3Dpop%2BcultureOrson Welles pictureAnonymous - Robert Redford and Paul Newman

Take your work seriously, but never take yourself seriously.Young Frankenstein (1974) Posterhttp://www.tvshowcentral.net/tvshows/cheers/cheers.htmhttp://www.haber7.com/haber.php%3Fhaber_id%3D84039cover

"And then I remember ... to relax, and not try to hold on to it. And then it flows through me like rain. And I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. Don't worry ... you will someday." - American Beauty

http://www.promover.org/meetings/gsa/gsa0205.htm   http://www.sportsfanshq.com/prod.itml/icOid/6982   Go Eagles!