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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

Bernie’s Quotes

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

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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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“I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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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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“On the other hand, there is no more potent dwarfing of the present than by viewing it as a mere link between a glorious past and a glorious future. Thus, though a mass movement at first turns its back on the past, it eventually develops a vivid awareness, often specious, of a distant glorious past. Religious movements go back to the day of creation; social revolutions tell of a golden age when men were free, equal, and independent; nationalist movements revive or invent memories of past greatness.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

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