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Joy H. said:
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Added 6/10/19. (first published 1975)6/10/19 - I ordered a digital copy of this book and am reading it on my Kindle for PC.
It's a good mystery.
It was $6.83 from Amazon. See the LINK below.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003GK21QW/... ...more "
“Though words sometimes puzzled Alma, she never looked up any word in any dictionary; a word was like a pebble to be turned briefly in the hand, and tossed away, with no expectation that it would be encountered again.”
― The Tattooed Girl
― The Tattooed Girl
“DREAMS
Never by many are marvels wrought,
By one or two are the dreams first caught. . .
The dreamer must toil when the odds are great,
Must stand to failure and work and wait.
Must keep his faith though he stand alone,
Until the truth of his dream is known.”
―
Never by many are marvels wrought,
By one or two are the dreams first caught. . .
The dreamer must toil when the odds are great,
Must stand to failure and work and wait.
Must keep his faith though he stand alone,
Until the truth of his dream is known.”
―
“The thing about growing older was that all of one's possessions became imbued with a sense of the past.”
― The Things We Don't Say
― The Things We Don't Say
“Poetry reading is the chamber music of the actor's craft.”
― Grace
― Grace
“NO MUSE IS GOOD MUSE
-by Rochelle Distelheim
To be an Artist you need talent, as well as a wife
who washes the socks and the children,
and returns phone calls and library books and types.
In other words, the reason there are so many more
Men Geniuses than Women Geniuses is not Genius.
It is because Hemingway never joined the P.T.A.
And Arthur Rubinstein ignored Halloween.
Do you think Portnoy's creator sits through children's theater
matinees--on Saturdays?
Or that Norman Mailer faced 'driver's ed' failure,
chicken pox or chipped teeth?
Fitzgerald's night was so tender because the fender
his teen-ager dented happened when Papa was at a story conference.
Since Picasso does the painting, Mrs. Picasso did the toilet training.
And if Saul Bellow, National Book Award winner, invited thirty-three
for Thanksgiving Day dinner, I'll bet he had help.
I'm sure Henry Moore was never a Cub Scout leader,
and Leonard Bernstein never instructed a tricycler
On becoming a bicycler just before he conducted.
Tell me again my anatomy is not necessarily my destiny,
tell me my hang-up is a personal and not a universal quandary,
and I'll tell you no muse is a good muse
unless she also helps with the laundry.
-Rochelle Distelheim
===============================”
― Sadie in Love
-by Rochelle Distelheim
To be an Artist you need talent, as well as a wife
who washes the socks and the children,
and returns phone calls and library books and types.
In other words, the reason there are so many more
Men Geniuses than Women Geniuses is not Genius.
It is because Hemingway never joined the P.T.A.
And Arthur Rubinstein ignored Halloween.
Do you think Portnoy's creator sits through children's theater
matinees--on Saturdays?
Or that Norman Mailer faced 'driver's ed' failure,
chicken pox or chipped teeth?
Fitzgerald's night was so tender because the fender
his teen-ager dented happened when Papa was at a story conference.
Since Picasso does the painting, Mrs. Picasso did the toilet training.
And if Saul Bellow, National Book Award winner, invited thirty-three
for Thanksgiving Day dinner, I'll bet he had help.
I'm sure Henry Moore was never a Cub Scout leader,
and Leonard Bernstein never instructed a tricycler
On becoming a bicycler just before he conducted.
Tell me again my anatomy is not necessarily my destiny,
tell me my hang-up is a personal and not a universal quandary,
and I'll tell you no muse is a good muse
unless she also helps with the laundry.
-Rochelle Distelheim
===============================”
― Sadie in Love
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