COURAGE AND FEAR
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)...
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THE LIGHTNESS OF A DUTCH SOUL
Dutch painters and the lightness of their paintings... "Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul." Vincent van Gogh Avenue with Flowering Chestnut Trees Vincent van Gogh - 1889 Lies, the Artist's Daughter, Painting Floris Arntzenius - Date unknown Landscape with Cattle Willem Maris -...
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Marguerite Duras and the advantage of the written word…
“When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.” Marguerite Duras, The Lover
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LITTLE BIRD OF HEAVEN BY JOYCE CAROL OATES
This intense novel is about a young mother and wife called Zoe Kruller, who is brutally murdered. It uses mixed storylines and takes place in rural twentieth-century America (1983-2001). There are two suspects; her own husband, Delray Kruller, from whom she is estranged from and her lover Eddy Diehl. The story...
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BOOKS AND HAPPINESS
"You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing." Anonymous Girl Reading Edmund Tarbell - circa 1909
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The Year 2021
Remembering how it was and wondering how it will be... 2020 made us aware of the fragility of our existence. I wish everyone a safe and happy 2021.
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JANE BOWLES ~ I AM A WRITER…
“I am a writer and I want to write.” ― Jane Bowles Jane Bowles with her little dog. Fear and Hope “Like most people, you are not able to face more than one fear during your lifetime. You also spend your life fleeing from your first fear towards your...
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Tavik Simon ~ “Vilma reading on a Sofa”
Series Women and their Passion for Books Tavik Simon, Vilma reading on a Sofa, 1912 “What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?” Anthony Trollope
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Maria Yakunchikova ~ Russian Painter (1870-1902 )
MARIA YAKUNCHIKOVA (1870-1902) WOMEN WITH A PASSION FOR ART The first female artist I want to introduce in the series Women with a Passion for Art is Maria Yakunchikova. After seeing one of her paintings called Reflection of an Intimate World I immediately fell in love with it. Therefore I...
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THE SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR EFFECT
“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.” SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR, AN EXISTENTIALIST FEMINIST I was 15 when I discovered Simone de Beauvoir, who was already a well-known writer and avant-garde philosopher. An article about her life story in the daily newspaper triggered a tremendous...
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A confinement in body …not in soul by Monique Lucy Weberink
Emma Justine Farnsworth ~ At Dusk, 1894 A confinement in body ...not in soul. What started 5 weeks ago as a horrible time for me due to the Coronavirus and being in confinement turned out to be a useful period I really needed without even knowing it. Of course...
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ABSENCE ~ JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
A QUOTE BY JEAN DE LA FONTAINE "L'absence est le plus grand de tous les maux" (Absence is the greatest of all evils) Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695) WHO WAS JEAN DE LA FONTAINE? Jean de La Fontaine was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read...
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FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA ~ NO ONE IS SLEEPING IN THIS WORLD
Federico Garcia Lorca "Let there be a landscape of open eyes and bitter wounds on fire. No one is sleeping in this world. No one, no one. I have said it before." Who was Federico Garcia Lorca? Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca, known as Federico García Lorca; (5...
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JAMES BALDWIN ~ THE IMPORTANCE OF LITERATURE
What does the American writer James Baldwin think about reading?... "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." ~ James Baldwin (1924-1987) Who was James Baldwin? James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, playwright, and activist. His essays,...
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HAPPY WOMEN’S DAY ~ 8 March 2019
French Writer Simone de Beauvoir Some quotes by writer Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) "I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom." “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” Simone de Beauvoir Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist...
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ARTHUR HACKER ~ ENGLISH CLASSICIST PAINTER
Arthur Hacker (25 September 1858 – 12 November 1919) was an English classicist painter. Born in London in 1858. In his art he was most known for painting religious scenes and portraits. His art was also influenced by his extensive travels in Spain and North Africa. He studied at the Royal...
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NADINE GORDIMER ~ HOW TO MAKE SENSE OF LIFE…
Nadine Gordimer "Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area." Nadine Gordimer (born 1923, South Africa - died 2014, South Africa) "Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is." Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer,...
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND
I have always been a huge fan of Alice in Wonderland. Love the books, the movies, the drawings. The story helps me to escape real life and enter this marvelous fantasy world created by Lewis Carroll. Come and join me on a journey through Alice in Wonderland...and enjoy the mysteries...
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DORIS LESSING ~ THE WAY TO READ BOOKS
Doris Lessing ONE WAY TO READ A BOOK In the opinion of the famous writer Doris Lessing there is only one way to read. “There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping...
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Monique Lucy Weberink
Maybe I am just another person that is starting an online magazine. I do not know, but I just have so many ideas running across my mind that I needed some form to express myself. Well, this is it. I am passionate about anything Art related and what can be wrong about sharing that with you.
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