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If I
read a book [and]
it makes my
whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me I know that is poetry. If I
feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is
poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way. [Emily Dickinson]
All good books are alike
in that they
are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished
reading one you will feel that
all that happened to you and afterwards
it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse,
and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
[Ernest Hemingway]
What I like best is a
book that's at
least funny once in a while...What really knocks me out is a book that,
when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was
a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone
whenever you felt like it.[J. D.
Salinger]
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film: Braveheart
was my favourite film of all time and I thought it always
would be...until they made Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings
into
movies - absolutely brilliant. They still top the list for me - but
there are others close behind, like the new Pride & Prejudice -
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After
silence, that which comes nearest
[Aldous Huxley] to expressing the inexpressible |
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The object of art is not
to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. [Albert Giacometti]
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My
favourite
painter by far is John
William Waterhouse and my favourite painting is his Lady of
Shallott, which I finally saw for myself in London. I enjoy other painters from the Pre-Raphaelite period as well as Turner, Van Gogh and Mucha. |
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| tattoos:I have four. My first, a trinity symbol on my ankle. My second (a gift from my Bible study girls before I left for Ireland), a celtic cross on my back. My two favourite symbols - not only beautiful, but extremely significant to me. My third (and favourite), is the Irish word "Cuimhnigh", which means 'Remember'. It's in the font Tolkien used for his Elvish language and there's a shamrock, which Saint Patrick used to describe the Trinity to the Irish. Inspired during my Bible study of Deuteronomy (esp. Deut 6:4-9) - just as Moses reminds the Israelites again & again in Deuteronomy - I want to always remember what the Lord has done for me, where He's brought me from. My fourth, is the Old English word "soð", which means 'truth, justice, righteousness'. The Brandywine font translates the symbol ð into its sound 'th', which I liked. Inspired by a wise British man who told me the way he determined what to involve himself in was by asking "Is there truth in it?" because "if there is, then, God has room to work. And where He can work, I want to be there, too." (Anyone looking for a brilliant tattoo artist in Kansas City - check out Whispering Danny at Exile Tattoo - 3425 Main - he did my last two.) |
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...hope that is seen is no hope at all. romans 8:24