Good Morning Friends & Digital Neighbors! Happy Thursday Supports, Members and Visitors! A few more quotes and perhaps another barn.
DRAMA! Acting, actresses and actors - not the great people of society, entertainers. They may be great people apart from their craft, but the pedestals that we put actors upon because they provide diversion in life is often without merit. I am know I am a curmudgeon, that has already been established. 😉 Good actors and actresses, really do help us understand the feelings that the rest of us Neanderthals have a difficult time articulating. But the cult of Hollywood is not something I am overly fond of, and I rarely feel part of the mass celebration or mourning of some celebrity when they pass. Anyway, great movies, powerful plays and even a good musical can really bring home the greatness of being human, illustrate the mystery of our complicated emotions and provide quick windows into life that have almost a magic to it. Quotes, barns and Thursday - have a great one!
Actors are the only honest hypocrites. - William Hazlitt
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. - Peter Ustinov
Every now and then when you're on stage, you can hear the best sound that a player can hear. It is the sound you can't get in a movies or in television. It is s sound of a wonderful thing, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live. - Shelley Winters
Barn by Annberly Carr on SWEET HOME ALABAMA
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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The Beautiful
Said the Disciple to the Lover, “Sir, before I left the world I heard certain men who were held in high esteem and thought to know the will of the Beloved say that those who loved the Beautiful did not love the Beloved but loved idols, yet in the Garden of the Beloved we are ever striving to create beauty for the pleasure of the Beloved. Were they then speaking the truth?”
The Lover answered, “Those who said this had never glimpsed the form of the Beloved nor ever truly sought Him, for all beauty is but the reflection of the beauty of the Beloved, although seen very dimly as in a dark and faulty mirror, even as all goodness is a dim reflection of the goodness of the Beloved. So it is that those who love beauty and goodness recognize dimly in them the form of the Beloved and though often in ignorance those who are seeking the Beautiful and the Good are seeking after the Beloved.”
