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John William Tuohy lives in Washington DC

As far as I'm concerned, no truer words have ever been written

“…Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”- John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men



How can we not love, just out and out love, this book

AND I HAVE ONE OF THOSE VERY LOUD, STUPID LAUGHS. I MEAN IF I EVER SAT BEHIND MYSELF IN A MOVIE OR SOMETHING, I’D PROBABLY LEAN OVER AND TELL MYSELF TO PLEASE SHUT UP.- J.D. Salinger


Its often forgotten that Ray Bradbury wrote not only Fahrenheit 451, but also The Martian Chronicles as well as dozens of successful screenplay.

BUT MOST OF ALL, I LIKE TO WATCH PEOPLE. SOMETIMES I RIDE THE SUBWAY ALL DAY AND LOOK AT THEM AND LISTEN TO THEM. I JUST WANT TO FIGURE OUT WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY WANT AND WHERE THEY ARE GOING.- Ray Bradbury



I gotta get these








Beautifully written in its simplicity


“I looked up at the sky; the pure, wonderful stars were still there, burning.”
                                                                                                          - Jack Kerouac, On The Road




Wow, I think this is a great statement


“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”- Albert Camus, The Outsider





The best thing

YOU KNOW,’ SHE SAID. ‘MISSING SOMEONE CAN SOMETIMES BE THE BEST THING FOR A WRITER.’
Lang Leav


Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.

Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures. No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.



THERE ARE NO FASTER OR FIRMER FRIENDSHIPS THAN


THERE ARE NO FASTER OR FIRMER FRIENDSHIPS THAN THOSE FORMED BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO LOVE THE SAME BOOKS.- Irving Stone




Interesting little book



Why the world needs editors


George Bernard Shaw, Yousuf Karsh, 1943


Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.


A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

being an artist



I miss Richard Brautigan, I miss the hopefulness in what he wrote




Different direction



Blogable films: Fahrenheit 451

Blogable films: Fahrenheit 451: By John William Tuohy Directed by Francois Truffaut Screenplay by  Jean-Louis Richard and  Francois Truffaut Starring Oskar Wer...

SOLITUDE



I NEVER FOUND A COMPANION THAT WAS SO COMPANIONABLE AS SOLITUDE.  Henry David Thoreau



Amen

“Not living your life is just like killing yourself, only it takes longer.”

I love the way this reads



WHEN I WAKED, I CRIED TO DREAM AGAIN. 

                                            Shakespeare






H.G. Wells and Jill the duck billed platypus, photographed by S. Alston Pearl, Melbourne, 1939


On October 7, 1955, Alan Ginsberg read “Howl” (Howl for Carl Solomon) publicly for the first time at ‘6 Gallery’ in San Francisco, and blew the lid off post-WW2 American poetry. Shown here at a reading in SF the following month.


Charles Bukowski drinking on the set of television show “Les Apostrophes”, France 1978





When Hunter S. Thompson died

When Hunter S. Thompson died, his ashes were shot out of a cannon on top of a custom built 153-foot tall tower shaped like his Gonzo logo. The funeral was funded by actor Johnny Depp.



So I write

"The things you are passionate about are not random. They are your calling."
Fabienne Fredrickson 



Isn't this wonderful? its called Marusia in the Library, David Burliuk


When Hunter S. Thompson died

When Hunter S. Thompson died, his ashes here shot out of a cannon on top of a custom built 153-foot tall tower shaped like his Gonzo logo. The funeral was funded by Johnny Depp.


wasted day writing

I spent an entire day writing a short story as it came to my head, sort of an auto writing thing...it didn't work. What I had at the end were three pages of garbage, just garbage. Goddam commas.
That just isn't my writing style. I won't do that again.