On [:] Quite | Mark Twain, 1835-1910
Édouard Manet, Young Lady, 1866 "She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you...
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On [:] Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë, 1847 / Marlon Brando, 1924-2004
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Penguin, 1965 cover shows a painting of Emily Brontë by her brother Patrick Branwell Brontë . “I...
On [:] Exquisite Moments | Audrey Hepburn, 1929-1993
Howell Conant, Audrey Hepburn, 1954 . “I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment. “ Audrey...
On [:] Canoe | Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862
Edna Boies Hopkins, Canoes, 1917 . "Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe."...
On [:] The Spirit of Place | Lawrence Durrell, 1969
Spirit of Place: Letters and Essays on Travel, 1969 Lawrence Durrell . "My...
On [:] A Garden | Charlotte Brontë, 1853
August Macke, Our garden with Blooming Discounts, 1912 ''Behind the house at the Rue Fossette there was a garden —...
On [:] Bonbons | Franz Hessel, 1920
Illustration: A L Grace from the weekly magazine The Bystander, December 1924 "We want to eat bonbons and be banal."...
On [:] Memories | Cesare Pavese, 1935-50
Jaques Henri Lartigue, 1928 “We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we...
On [:] Bread | Latin graffiti in Pompeii
Painted shrine from kitchen of a villa in Pompeii "On April 19th I made bread." Latin graffiti in Pompeii (CIL...
On [:] The Use of a Book | Lewis Carroll, 1865
Gerardo Sacristán Torralba, Scrambled books, Study of light, 1939 "What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures...