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Much later, I learned to deeply respect the indomitable spunk, professionalism, and craft of both Doris Day and Debbie Reynolds, but at the time, I darkly viewed them as ruthless tyrants of an ossified WASP establishment.
“Tutto ciò che è, è fiamma che si estinguerà nella luce della Storia; e in essa noi corriamo, cantiamo, danziamo, piangiamo. Ma non lasciarti dietro dei rimpianti – neanche se questo non portasse a nulla. Apri il tuo cuore a Sua Altezza…”
― Five Star Stories #3
― Five Star Stories #3
“Here’s a non-geeky framing of the same idea: What if listening to an inner voice or heeding a passion for ethics or beauty were to lead to more important work in the long term, even if it measured as less successful in the moment? What if deeply reaching a small number of people matters more than reaching everybody with nothing?”
― Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
― Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
“For as teares oftentimes trickle downe the cheekes of him that seeth or heareth some joyfull newes, so I being in this fearfull perplexity, could not forbeare laughing, to see how of Aristomenus I was made like unto a snail [in] his shell.”
― The Golden Ass
― The Golden Ass
“Greek philosophers, beginning with Thales, were men of speculative temperament. What is the world made of? What are the elements and the processes by which the world is transformed? Greek philosophy and science were born together, of the passion to know. The Buddha’s aim was not to know the world or to improve it but to escape its suffering. His whole concern was salvation. It is not easy for us in the West to understand or even name this Buddhist concern. To say that the Buddhists had a “philosophy” would be misleading.”
― The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination
― The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination
“The only beautiful things, as somebody once said, are the things that do not concern us. As long as a thing is useful or necessary to us, or affects us in any way, either for pain or for pleasure, or appeals strongly to our sympathies, or is a vital part of the environment in which we live, it is outside the proper sphere of art. To art's subjectmatter we should be more or less indifferent. We should, at any rate, have no preferences, no prejudices, no partisan feeling of any kind. It is exactly because Hecuba is nothing to us that her sorrows are such an admirable motive for a tragedy.”
― The Decay of Lying
― The Decay of Lying
Theatre Books and Plays
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A room for lovers of theatre, theater books, texts on acting, directing, theory and scripts.
Non sapevo come chiamare questo gruppo che serve per fare letture belle insieme
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L'idea è di creare un gruppo di lettura per non sentirmi troppo sola nelle letture che affronto via via nella mia "spericolata vita". Una cosa senza t ...more
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