Jack London book To Build a Fire
"To Build a Fire" published as a collection of short stories in the book Lost Face (1910)
Jack London book To Build a Fire
"To Build a Fire" published as a collection of short stories in the book Lost Face (1910)
“Now you're gone, and nobody says a word
about your troubled and exalted life.”
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
In Memory of M. B.
Context: Now you're gone, and nobody says a word
about your troubled and exalted life.
Only my voice, like a flute, will mourn
at your dumb funeral feast.
“Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.”
Javier Marías (1951) Spanish writer
"Javier Marías, The Art of Fiction No. 190" https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5680/javier-marias-the-art-of-fiction-no-190-javier-marias, interview with Sarah Fay, The Paris Review 179 (Winter 2006)
“Life is chaotic, dangerous, and surprising. Buildings should reflect that.”
Frank Gehry (1929) Canadian-American (b.1929)
Source: Jason K. Miller, Susan Lauzau (2002) Frank Gehry. p. 6.
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"The Trouble with Man is Man", The New Yorker; reprinted in Lanterns & Lances (1961).
From Lanterns and Lances
Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
'Wuthering depths'
Essays and reviews, The Crystal Bucket (1982)
Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) Argentine novelist
"Creyó por primera vez entender porqué se decía que la vida es sueño: si uno vive bastante, los hechos de su vida, como los de un sueño, su vuelven incomunicables porque a nadie interesan."
Diario de la Guerra del Cerdo, 1969.
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) writer and activist
O Black and Unknown Bards, st. 2.
Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)