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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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20 years ago, 2003, Tom Hanks, Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton & Harrison Ford photographed by Annie Leibovitz
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“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” ~Ernest Hemingway
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"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need". ~Cicero
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''I was the type of person who would cross the ocean for someone who wouldn't even cross the street for me… It took me a long time to understand that others didn't make me sad or disappointed. It was my own misguided belief that everyone has the same heart as me...”Jodie Foster
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“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.” ~ Virginia Woolf
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“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” ~Frida Kahlo
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“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”~Ernest Hemingway
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“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...” ~ A. Edward Newton
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"Moonlighting" (1985-1989). Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis in 1985
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“To be silent the whole day, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.” ~ Henry Miller (Art:1961 by Andrew Wyeth)
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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy.”
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Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, and Bruce Willis on the set of 'Pulp Fiction, 1993
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Joan Jett in her childhood bedroom, 1977
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Nature ...
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Amy Winehouse and her beloved mother, Janice Winehouse after winning 5 Grammy Awards, 2008
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“The older I get, the more I find that you can only live with those who free you, who love you with an affection that is as light to bear as it is strong to feel….” ~Albert Camus
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Salvador Dali and Alice Cooper - photographed by Annie Leibovitz
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Books
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madness ...
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Setting sails …
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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." ~Jorge Luis Borges. (Photo: The Long Room inside The Library of Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.)
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“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”~Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)
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“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” ~Voltaire
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Dead Poets Society (1989)
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Prima Ballerina dance in the stairwell
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“I will not serve that in which I no longer believe and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can.” ~ James Joyce
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"Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness." ~Werner Herzog
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“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.” ~Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
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"I don't know if I'm extremely sensitive or life is unbearable." ~ Vincent Van Gogh.
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"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors." ~Charles Baudelaire
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“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” ~Ernest Hemingway
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“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” ~ Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
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… books
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" TRUTH IN ME " by R.M Drake Book: "of love and life"
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“I love walking in the rain because no one can see my tears” ~ Charlie Chaplin ...
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“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Jodie Foster & Robert De Niro on the set of "Taxi Driver (1976)"
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“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.” ~ Sylvia Plath
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Tina Turner in New York City, 1981 (Photo: David McGough) “People think my life has been tough, but I think it has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realize it’s not what happens, but how you deal with it.”
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Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward shopping for books in Paris, 1959.
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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” ~ Marie Skłodowska Curie
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"If you want to have two faces, make at least one of them beautiful." ~ Marilyn Monroe
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"So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for I, too, am fluent in silence." ~ R. Arnold "The Girl on the Front Porch" by R. Arnold
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“I want people to hear my voice and just forget their troubles for five minutes.” - Amy Winehouse
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"If I was not a physicist, I would probably be a musician, often think in music,live my daydreams in music,see my life in terms of music. I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music,but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin." ~A.E.
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“Mr. Gambini, are you mocking me with that out fit?” My Cousin Vinny (1992)
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"Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world." ~Jeanette Winterson (James MacKeown)
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Rainy night in NYC. 1954
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"Don’t be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.” ~ Oscar Wilde Edward Robert Hughes – Midsummer, 1908.
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"Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart." Victor Hugo Jef Bourgeau, Stopping By the Woods
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“Where there is no emotion there is no life. If you have to learn something by heart and it is of no interest to you, there is no fire; it does not register, even if you read it fifty times. But as soon as there is emotional interest …”~Marie Louise von Franz
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“But I protect myself, I surround myself with books, their silence does not demand anything, they exist, they are alive, they are for anyone to open, unlike us human beings.” ~ Bo Carpelan
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“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.” ~Albert Camus,The Stranger
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“Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married or own a house; as if life was some kind of grocery list. But nobody ever asks if you are happy.” ~Heath Ledger
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"Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle." Albert Einstein
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O Captain! My Captain! Dead Poets Society (1989)
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“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” ~ Albert Camus (Illustration by Igor Morski)
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To Kill a Mockingbird - novel by Harper Lee, published in 1960
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"I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe," ~Ernest Hemingway, A Clean Well-Lighted Place (Photo, Ernest Hemingway and Lauren Bacall, at a cafe in Malaga, Spain, probably 1959)
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Dead Poets Society (1989)
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These two Italian ladies constructed a table between their balconies to enjoy dinner together
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Old bookstore in Venice, Italy
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… truth
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Refill ...
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“Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.” ~Alberto Manguel
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Clementine Churchill ...
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“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be.” ~ Charles Bukowski
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“I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.” ~ Georgia O'Keeffe
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“You can read about yourself, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself.” ~Marilyn Monroe
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“I am secretive. I smile and I’m polite, but that doesn’t mean that I am in agreement, or that I will do as I am told to do.” ~Françoise Gilot (the woman who dumped Picasso)
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"I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them." ~Emma Thompson
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… be said
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“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.” Carl Jung Norah Neilson Gray - Exotic, 1924.
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“The world …” ~Albert Einstein
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...back to Black
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“Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.” ~Henry Stevens (simonbrownphotography)
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… question
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A bit ...
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This floor is entirely flat. The remarkable 17th-century optical illusion of Florence Cathedral's marble tiles. When seen from above, the intricate geometry creates the illusion of a giant abyss ... … guided by Renaissance sculptor Baccio d'Agnolo, was completed in 1660.
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Debbie Harry, 1978
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"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties." --Erich Fromm
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I-80 in Wyoming is known as the Highway to Heaven
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Gustav Klimt Field of Poppies, 1907
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“… will never allow them to remove the wrinkles …because they are the result of my astonishment at the beauty of life, or those on my mouth, … not even the black spots under my eyes, they hide behind it memories of my sadness and crying … an indicator of my life experiences."
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“We may define ‘faith’ as a firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of ‘faith.’ We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence.” ~Bertrand Russell
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance."
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Musicians
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"Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' they can run to the computer and tell you within 5 sec.That's fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now." ~Tom Waits
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Henri Lebasque (French, 1865 – 1937) Young girl with guitar, 1923
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"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape." ~ Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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"Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love." ~ Claude Monet
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“You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.” ~Kurt Vonnegut
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The Fountainhead (1949)
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"Always continue walking a lot and loving nature, for that’s the real way to learn to understand art better and better. Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see." ~ Vincent Van Gogh (Shoes by Vincent Van Gogh)
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