Fine Art Daily

May 23, 2013

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It is Margaret Wise Brown's birthday. Goodnight Moon! “In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cow jumping over the moon...” -Margaret Wise Brown

May 22, 2013

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Today is poet Jane Kenyon's birthday. "I slept in a bed in a room with paintings on the walls, and planned another day just like this day. But one day, I know, it will be otherwise.” -Jane Kenyon, "Otherwise: New & Selected Poems"

May 21, 2013

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It is poet Robert Creeley's birthday. "The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it." - Robert Creeley

May 20, 2013

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Today is Mary Pope Osborne's birthday. “I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.” -Mary Pope Osborne, "My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck"

May 19, 2013

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Today is Lorraine Hansberry's birthday. "The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely." -Lorraine Hansberry

May 18, 2013

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Today is Tina Fey's birthday. Here is a fragment from a mother's prayer: “When the Crystal Meth is offered, May she remember the parents who cut her grapes in half And stick with Beer.” -Tina Fey, Bossypants

May 17, 2013

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It is Gary Paulsen's birthday. “She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.” -Gary Paulsen, Mudshark

May 16, 2013

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Today is Margret Rey's birthday. She and her husband, Hans Augusto Rey, wrote and illustrated the Curious George books. “Now run along and play, but don't get into trouble.' George promised to be good. But it is easy for little monkeys to forget.” -H.A. & Marget Rey

May 15, 2013

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Today is L. Frank Baum's birthday. Watch out for Miss Gulch. “Never give up. No one knows what's going to happen next.” L. Frank Baum

May 14, 2013

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Today is Eoin Colfer's birthday. “If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away.” -Eoin Colfer

May 13, 2013

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Today is Daphne du Maurier's birthday. Beware of Mrs. Danvers! “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” ― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

May 12, 2013

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Today is Edward Lear's birthday. “They dined on mince, and slices of quince Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.” -Edward Lear

May 11, 2013

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Today is André Gregory's birthday. "We're bored. We're all bored now. But has it ever occurred to you, Wally, that the process that creates this boredom that we see in the world now, may very well be a self perpetuating, unconscious form of brainwashing created by a world totalitarian government based on money and that all of this is much more dangerous than one thinks, and its not just a question of individual survival, Wally, but that somebody who's bored is asleep, and somebody who's asleep will not say no?" -André Gregory

May 10, 2013

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Today is Monica Dickens's birthday. “There was a window-seat too, looking out on to the drive, and a careless gathering of sofas and armchairs, whose springs were at the perfect stage of comfort — half-way between newness and decadence.” – Monica Dickens

May 9, 2013

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It is J.M. Barrie's birthday. “Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.” -J.M. Barrie

May 8, 2013

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It's playwright Beth Henley's birthday. "It’s called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in." - Beth Henley

May 7, 2013

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Today is novelist and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's birthday. “Just think of spending all that time in The Golden Bowl and the other James and Forster books we have done. But especially Henry James because he has such marvelous characters and he has such strong dramatic scenes. You just put your hand in and pull them out.” http://www.merchantivory.com/goldenbowl/ruth.html

May 6, 2013

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Today is Randall Jarrell's birthday. “The moon rises. The red cubs rolling In the ferns by the rotten oak Stare over a marsh and a meadow To the farm's white wisp of smoke. A spark burns, high in heaven. Deer thread the blossoming rows Of the old orchard, rabbits Hop by the well-curb. The cock crows From the tree by the widow's walk; Two stars in the trees to the west, Are snared, and an owl's soft cry Runs like a breath through the forest. Here too, though death is hushed, though joy Obscures, like night, their wars, The beings of this world are swept By the Strife that moves the stars.” -Randall Jarrell

May 5, 2013

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Today is Michael Palin's birthday. "I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller." -Michael Palin

May 4, 2013

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Today is Leslie Marmon Silko's birthday. “Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness and darkness. On wings, on feet, on our bellies, out we all come to glory in the night.” -Leslie Marmon Silko

May 3, 2013

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It's Betty Comden's birthday. She and her longtime collaborator, Adolph Green, wrote the books and lyrics for many popular plays and movies. I am adding a link to her New York Times obituary so you can appreciate the vast compendium of their work. Amazing. "I have a place where dreams are born And time is never planned It's not on any chart You must find it with your heart Never Never Land" By Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Jule Styne http://theater.nytimes.com/2006/11/23/theater/00comdencnd.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

May 2, 2013

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Today is Dr. Benjamin Spock's birthday. "Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense." -Dr. Spock

May 1, 2013 - Part II

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Today is Joseph Heller's birthday. “Every writer I know has trouble writing.” -Joseph Heller

May 1, 2013

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Here is your Nearly Green calendar for May. Tra la, it's May!

April 30, 2013

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"Miss Stein gets up every morning about ten and drinks some coffee, against her will. She's always been nervous about becoming nervous and she thought coffee would make her nervous, but her doctor prescribed it. Miss Toklas, her companion, gets up at six and starts dusting and fussing around. Once she broke a fine piece of Venetian glass and cried. Miss Stein laughed and said "Hell, oh hell, hell, objects are made to be consumed like cakes, books, people." Every morning Miss Toklas bathes and combs their French poodle, Basket, and brushes its teeth. It has its own toothbrush." -From a A Talk of the Town piece written by Janet Flanner, James Thurber and Harold Ross