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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 # 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 # 65: “Nature is infinitely creative…”

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

                                                                                                                                Marianne Williamson