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"There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting." -Robert Rauschenberg

Photo of Rauschenberg in Captiva, 1979, by Terry Van Brunt. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

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It has been said that "happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

& as my brother Mark notes: "New Yorkers don't wait for trains, they watch for them."

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Green Green as a quiet chaos lying in verdant beginnings, The freest state you can be in. Not the violence but the unorganized circumstance. Biological and birthing, Articulate whisperer of promise. The last few pages of The Great Gatsby: All green. A convincingly passive color To quiet a turmoil or contrast other levels, An energy contradictory in quixotic abundance. The Chiaroscuro and Venetian schools Avoided green and had no green in their palette. The overall effect is Green. It is asking it, Complementary, Next to it. If it is not green it is glazing dark umber Into green effect. A consequence Of glazing reds & ochre Into shades of vicinity insatiate. Catherine McWeeney

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“Perhaps that’s part of the mystery and magic of writing … that you can’t encompass it in any kind of definition or aphorism … or do anything but shake your head and strike your breast. It’s beyond me, but thank God, I’m mixed up with it.”

Jessamyn West (via theparisreview)

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“A sense of humor is a sense of proportion.”

~Kahlil Gibran from Sand and Foam

photo by JD Hancock

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“There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.” -Robert Rauschenberg

Photo of Rauschenberg in Captiva, 1979, by Terry Van Brunt. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

Visit our Facebook page for more photos and to share your own stories in loving memory of Bob on his birthday.

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“Hard Times: An American Musical” at the Cell Theater, part of the 1st Irish Theater Festival, looks at the life and works of the songwriter Stephen Foster.

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“I get really angry when someone says they don’t read fiction because it’s all made up and ‘not real.’ Bullshit! Nothing is more real than fiction. Nothing helps us make sense of the real world more than fiction. Nothing instills in us empathy for others like fiction. As David Foster Wallace said, ‘Fiction is what it is to be a fucking human being.’ That’s my favorite quote of all time, because nothing more true has ever been said.”

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“Thus, magic in every papyrus; magic in all the religious formulas; magic bottled up in hermetically closed vials, many thousands of years old; magic in elegantly bound, modern works; magic in the most popular novels; magic in social gatherings; magic worse than that, sorcery—in the very air one...

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Last week, Anthony Shadid’s memoir House of Stone, which tells of the author’s attempts to rebuild his dilapidated family home in Marjayoun, Lebanon and in turn of a search for identity in a restless Middle East—was published in the United Kingdom. To celebrate, Granta...

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With a Hemingwayesque build and the distinctively rounded vowels of his native Australia, Mr. Hughes became as familiar a presence on television as he was in print.

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“It seems to me that our business is to try to think and imagine and speak about things that, by their nature, might seem to defy us.”

—Journalist (and former Paris Review editor) Philip Gourevitch on editing, writing, and his work on genocide.

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The Rectory by Robert J. Hughes A great summer novel set in an Orient-like North Fork setting that will sends chills up your spine! I just bought: The Rectory by Robert J. Hughes The Rectory is a literary ghost story that explores what happens when a young mother, whose young son has died, seeks solace in an old house by the sea. Instead she finds an old diary, an eerie book - and unexpected visitors who prey upon the grief and desperation of others. http://amzn.to/PH3F11

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What Maira Kalman thinks about herself.