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Christmas Morning - Henry Mosler - circa 1916

“I think to be a good performer (or good writer, or good artist of any kind, actually) you need a kind of synthesis between dreaminess and fantasy on the one hand, and straightforward hard work. The very best artists, in any field, are both warm and cold, sensitive and powerful, cerebral and emotional. Sometimes people speak of those polarities in terms of masculine-feminine, which is part of the picture, sure—-but it’s actually much complicated than that, I think. At any rate: I think there’s no question that a good artist has to be able to work in a whole lot of different ranges… I think most artists have an element of androgyny in their characters, which is perhaps part of what makes them artists in the first place.“

Donna Tartt

#quotes #donna tartt

deuxarabesques

my absolute favourite poem

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guy

dont flirt with me like this bc i will fall in love with u

madame-amour

“Silk Stockings” (1957)

#ugh I love #cyd charisse

antoniosbanderas

Sense and Sensibility (1995) dir. Ang Lee

ofallingstar

Jane Eyre (2011)

lettersfromthelighthouse

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.

JRR Tolkien, Preface to the Second Edition of The Lord of the Rings (1966)