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Victory, Joseph Conrad (1915)
You don’t expect a slave that’s bought for money to be grateful. And if you sell your work – what is it but selling your own self? You’ve got so many days to live and you sell them one after another. Who can pay me enough for my life?
Coda, Dorothy Parker (March 22, 1928)
There’s little in taking or giving,
There’s little in water or wine;
This living, this living, this living
Was never a project of mine.
Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is
The gain of the one at the top,
For art is a form of catharsis,
And love is a permanent flop,
And work is the province of cattle,
And rest’s for a clam in a shell,
So I’m thinking of throwing the battle-
Would you kindly direct me to hell?
(my emphasis)
Clifford Odets (1963)
That miserable patch of events, that mélange of nothing, while you were looking ahead for something to happen, that was it! That was life! You lived it!
(quoted in Sam Kashner’s Vanity Fair piece A Movie Marked Danger, on the making of Alexander Mackendrick’s Sweet Smell of Success (1957), with a script by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy (1892)
– Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?
– Yes.
– All like ours?
– I don’t know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound – a few blighted.
– Which do we live on – a splendid one or a blighted one?
– A blighted one.
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[Nandia Foteini Vlachou does not get paid for writing this blog, but thoroughly enjoys it. Like most people, she has lots of overlapping identities but, as far as this blog is concerned, she is mostly an art historian and film studies amateur. Who, one day, dreams of visiting the Hebrides]
…..η τύχη ευνοεί μόνο τους τολμηρούς!!!Εύγε!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thanks for stopping by my blog, I really love your use of quotes and images together. Very powerful stuff! I’m looking forward to seeing more (:
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Thank you so much! I came across your blog by searching for book-related wordpress blogs. I always like to learn more about books, and then beat myself up for not having read most of them 🙂
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Hiya, came from Pete’s blog to see if I could help with the Facebook button problem, but I can’t sorry! I can see it though! Anyway love the Buffy art historian stuff so am your latest follower 🙂
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Thank you so much for giving it a go, and following the blog! I will check yours now 🙂 Fraggle Rock was an absolute favorite as I was growing up and I idolized Jim Henson (although I realize the title might have little to do with the content, hehe).
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My nickname was Fraggle when I was doing my audiology training~I had red fuzzy hair at the time, and because I like rock music I’ve always been Fraggle Rocking 🙂
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