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Heartbroken to hear about the death of Peter Straub. A huge influence on me as a writer, and a kind and generous mentor. What a wonderful man. He'll be missed.

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Patti Smith's remembrance of Tom Verlaine is the most exquisite thing I've read in eons newyorker.com/magazine/2023/… (HT debbie millman)

Éditions Iris. Montmartre 1950. Paris

G u s t a v K l i m t The Park, c1910

"On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word." Jack Kerouac

© Diane Arbus, 1962.

© Paul Almasy, 1947.

This painting by Zdzisław Beksiński reminds me of an important truth: The only force more powerful than death, capable of resisting the hellscape that is modernity, is love. As cliche as it sounds, most people forget that in the end it’s all that matters. Love madly!!!

"My taste runs to hourglasses, maps, seventeenth-century typefaces, etymologies, the taste of coffee, and the prose of Robert Louis Stevenson." Jorge Luis Borges ☕️📚🌷 Good morning

Janos Stekovics. The twins János and István Lukács lived in the Hungarian Puszta region and had loads of duplicate things: two bicycles, two traditional shepherd cloaks, two horse-drawn carriages and the same clothes, which often lasted for twenty years or more.

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Ambitious people need each other. Ambition breeds a particular kind of frustration, and the more ambitious you are, the larger it looms. Without like-minded peers, ambitious people become suffocated by life — chained by tall poppy syndrome and the dogmas of complacency. As

*Happiness* ~ Raymond Carver

Mr. Buttoned-Down Cool 🎂 Miles Davis 1955 Tom Palumbo 🎧 Sketches from 🇪🇸 youtu.be/38zRx9AYDHQ

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