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| ❝ Innocence, on the Bicycle of Propriety, carrying the Urn of Reputation safely over the Abyss of Indiscretion ❞⠀—Edward Gorey, The Broken Spoke ❝ Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. ❞⠀—Orson Welles? or Oscar Wilde? ❝ You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. ❞⠀—Ray Bradbury, How to Be Madder Than Captain Ahab ❝ Get my swan costume ready. ❞⠀—Anna Pavlova’s final request before passing away ❝ The beauty of those swans! Of course, they’re angry beasts, like peacocks; but where peacocks are common, there’s nothing common about swans. The silence of their swimming... you don’t hear it, but you feel it. ❞⠀—Diana Vreeland, D.V. ❝ Ouspenskaya used to fix the class with a very stern, rather frightening look, a monocle in one eye, and tell us to imagine we were blades of grass on the ocean bed. And everyone swayed. ❞⠀—Helen Beverley, on Maria Ouspenskaya as an acting teacher, in Nazimova: A Biography sep 11 2023 ∞
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❝ 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 them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag—and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty—and vice versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you. ❞
❝ I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompan... oct 14 2023 ∞
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what is your mermaid tail? come to my tea party & i will give you a gift: come to my masquerade & i will give you something you need: which shakespearean method of dying are you? which virgin martyr are you? jul 15 2024 ∞
jul 9 2026 + most of the illustrations in my listography (icons, etc.) are by Edward Gorey, not me! jun 25 2026 ∞
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