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Jean-Paul Sartre Valentine's Day card: "Hell is other people, except for you."

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Happy New Year 🎉

Happy New Year 🎉

Happy New Year 🎉

Charles Bukowski

"Great writers are indecent people
they live unfairly
saving the best part for paper."

― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

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1979 photo of Joseph Torchia by Norman Corby from backcover of THE KRYPTONITE KID

1980 Owl Book edition front cover of THE KRYPTONITE KID from Holt, Rinehart & Winston (originally pub. 1979)

Born on this day, December 15, 1946, Joseph Torchia is the author of one of my all-time favorite books, THE KRYPTONITE KID, an unforgettable story about a boy who writes letters to Superman.

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On 1 December Humanists UK marks World Aids Day - Humanists UK

Today we mark #WorldAIDSDay. It's a day to remember the millions of lives lost to HIV and AIDS, but also to celebrate the lives saved by the scientific advancements of the last 40+ years. Compassion, science, and humanity has led the way.

Jonathan Groff kissing Bowen Yang’s hand during the Thanksgiving Day Parade might be one of the most unexpectedly heartwarming queer moments of the year.
Soft, joyful energy on national TV — and honestly, I’ll take more of that, please. 🌈💛

#JonathanGroff #BowenYang #Thanksgiving

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Abundance
Joy
Growth

Same here for both Derry Girls and The Office

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Hart Crane

"Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery."

Hart Crane “Letters, 1916-1932”

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My favorite book.

Favorite line: "...lust wreaking its usual havoc on grammar." [p.209 of the Little Brown hardback]

Book cover of My Lucky Star by Joe Keenan

Books I've read in the past few months ...

My Lucky Star by Joe Keenan, the final book (and my favorite) of the Philip Cavanaugh and Gilbert Selwyn trilogy.

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Richard Bach

Richard Bach:
"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."

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Our Hyacinth has passed away. 😥 RIP Dame Patricia Routledge

W. Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham:
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."

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Cover of Grief by Andrew Holleran

Books I've read in the past few months ... the moving and beautifully written novel Grief by Andrew Holleran

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Photomof the band Joy Division: Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, and Peter Hook

Joy Division "Atmosphere"

Walk in silence
Don't walk away, in silence
See the danger
Always danger

Endless talking
Life rebuilding
Don't walk away

#music #poetry #Atmosphere #JoyDivision
#IanCurtis #BernardSumner #StephenMorris #PeterHook

Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here"

Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here"

How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have you found?
The same old fears
Wish you were here

#music #poetry #PinkFloyd #WishYouWereHere

Wish You Were Here is my favorite Pink Floyd album. I can listen to it nonstop.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski:
"I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, 'crazy.' But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there."
(Ham On Rye)

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Photo of the sky to commemorate 9/11

Today marks the 24th anniversary of 9/11

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Star Trek was everything to me growing up. Mr. Spock was my hero. 🖖

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka:
"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."

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Photo of Christopher Coe (1987) by Thomas Victor

Christopher Coe (1953.11.27–1994.09.06) wrote two novels: I Look Divine (1987), a brilliant tale about the fragility of beauty and vanity, and Such Times (1993), a beautiful, heart-breaking semi-autobiographical story about a love affair cut short by the AIDS virus.

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