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BOMBAST and BLUSTER and 1984

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“[With Ronald] Reagan, Joan Didion wrote, “rhetoric was soon understood to be interchangeable with action.”

As quoted in Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser

Forty years later it has reached its apotheosis.

BOMBAST and BLUSTER

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Trump’s Press Conferences and 1984

 

Quote #73: “Wine is sunlight…” Galileo

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Sauterne                      (painting by jpbohannon ©2017)

“Wine is sunlight held together by water.”

Galileo Galilei
(Quoted in Reputations by Juan Gabriel Vasquez)

 

Quote #72″ If you want to be a writer…” Stephen King

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                                                                  Sunday night desk                                                                      photo ©2017 jpbohannon

 

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

Stephen King, On Writing

Quote #71: “Poetry … milks the unconscious.” — Anne Sexton

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Self Portrait by Anne Sexton

“Poetry, after all, milks the unconscious.”

Anne Sexton

Quote # 70: “I tried to drown my sorrows…” Freida Kahlo

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My photo of bookmark and portrait of Freida Kahlo. (Purchased in Puerto Morelos 7/15/2017)

“I tried to drown my sorrows, but now the bastards have learned to swim.”

                                                                                                                          Freida Kahlo

Quote #69: Georgia O’Keefe–“I hate flowers…”

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“Hyacinth” illustration 2014 jpbohannon

“I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.”

                                                                                                                  Georgia O’Keefe, 1887-1986

Quote #68: Virginia Woolf–“Arrange whatever pieces…”

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“Virginia Woolf” illustration 2016 by jpbohannon

“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

Quote #67: Leon Russell–“I love you in a place…”

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R.I.P.  Leon Russell (1942-2016)  silkscreen 2016 by jpbohannon

I love you in a place where there’s no space and time.
I love you for my life, you are a friend of mine.

Leon Russell “A Song for You”

Click here: This was what it once was all about…A Song for You

Quote # 65: “Nature is infinitely creative…”

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“Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.”

                                                                                                                                Marianne Williamson

Quote 64: In honor of Doc Holliday’s 165th birthday

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Doc Holliday b. August 14, 1851. (illustration 2016 by jpbohannon)

“There’s no normal life, Wyatt. There’s just life.”

From the movie Tombstone,
featuring Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday