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Bernie Starzewski

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The Admirable Crichton

by J.M. Barrie

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Bernie Starzewski said: " I remember reading this in high school. Think Downton Abby meets Gilligan's Island.
Late 19th century Britich social satire.
I own www.parkviewplayhouse.com and we are looking at producing this along with another of Barrie's plays, Mary Rose which also ...more "

Mar 28, 2022 11:35AM · see review

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The Quiet Season: Remembering Country Winters

by Jerry Apps

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Bernie Starzewski said: " As a former farmer myself and familiar with the region where these stories took place I can attest to its simple and loving accuracy.
I too have experienced the thrill and even a little fear of a Wisconsin blizzard and fought to keep out the cold and ...more "

Jan 02, 2019 01:31PM · see review

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New Boy

by Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 04, 2017 03:04PM

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“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: life, satire, tyranny

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“Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families”
― Tennessee Williams

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“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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“What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can...”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

tags: perseverance

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“The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization. As he crosses threshold after threshold, conquering dragon after dragon, the stature of the divinity that he summons to his highest wish increases, until it subsumes the cosmos. Finally, the mind breaks the bounding sphere of the cosmos to a realization transcending all experiences of form - all symbolizations, all divinities: a realization of the ineluctable void.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

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