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My Death

by Lisa Tuttle

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Gravity and Center: Selected Sonnets, 1994-2022

by Henri Cole

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The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th-Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece

by Laura Cumming

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Spring Cannot Be Cancelled by David Hockney

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Hockney would probably agree with Pablo Picasso’s remark, ‘When I create, the artists of the past stand behind me’ (and of course one of those most constantly in his thoughts is Picasso himself).

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

by Austin Kleon

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Allyn’s Quotes

“Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been. ”
― Jimmy Buffett

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“you can do a couple of days a week, then do something else. It’s a bit like being an athlete. You have to keep fit and nimble.”
― Martin Gayford, The Pursuit of Art: Travels, Encounters and Revelations

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“If you are painter it’s your whole existence. It’s not an activity”
― Martin Gayford, The Pursuit of Art: Travels, Encounters and Revelations

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“from a small one. That’s because, if you are looking at the original, its impact is physiological. In the same way, standing next to a big tree feels quite unlike being next to a sapling.”
― Martin Gayford, The Pursuit of Art: Travels, Encounters and Revelations

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Fly Fish Literati is a group of readers dedicated to those writers who have blended the experience of fly fishing with Literature (with a capital L). ...more

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This group is for readers who enjoy (or would like to learn more about) works by writers from the Caribbean and its diaspora... All languages welcome. ...more

Adventure Reading — 163 members — last activity Oct 18, 2018 07:42PM
Discuss books on mountain climbing, sailing, diving, surfing, skiing, shipwrecks, survival, rescue, exploration, etc. For armchair (and actual) adren ...more