Bright Quotes - цитаты

📅 December 22, 2016 “Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.” ― Jean Racine 👓 About the quote: French dramatist Jean Racine, who was baptized on December 22, 1639, presumably soon after his birth, was one of the major playwrights of 17th-century France, alongside Molière and Corneille. Author of what many consider the finest tragedies in French literature, he is best known for the plays Phèdre, Andromaque, Britannicus, and Athalie. 👍 Like this quote on Goodreads 📖 Join the channel

📅 December 12, 2016 “Why don't we have a little game? Let's pretend that we're human beings, and that we're actually alive.” ― John Osborne 👓 About the quote: Considered the archetypal ‘Angry Young Man’ of 1950s British theater, playwright John Osborne (born December 12, 1929) is best known for Look Back in Anger, his groundbreaking play that transformed English theater with its gritty realism and excoriation of postwar life. 👍 Like this quote on Goodreads 📖 Join the channel

📅 December 11, 2016 “Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.” ― Grace Paley 👓 About the quote: Grace Paley (born in the Bronx on December 11, 1922) was an American short story writer, poet, teacher, and political activist. Her Collected Stories was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her other books included the short story collections The Little Disturbances of Man (1959), Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974), and Just As I Thought (1999). 👍 Like this quote on Goodreads 📖 Join the channel

📅 December 8, 2016 “Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.” ― Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 👓 About the quote: In 1903, Norwegian writer Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (born December 08, 1832) became the third recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was awarded the prize "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit." 👍 Like this quote on Goodreads 📖 Join the channel

📅 December 7, 2016 “To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.” ― Joyce Cary 👓 About the quote: Joyce Cary, born in Northern Ireland on December 7, 1888, was a prolific novelist whose diverse works drew on his experiences living in Ireland, in Nigeria while working for the British Colonial Service, and in England. His best-known books include Mister Johnson (1939), the story of a young Nigerian’s tragic dealings with the British Colonial regime, and The Horse’s Mouth (1944), about an anarchic painter, which was made into a film written by, and starring, Alec Guinness. 👍 Like this quote on Goodreads 📖 Join the channel

📅 December 4, 2016 “All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income” ― Samuel Butler 👓 About the quote: Samuel Butler, the English author born December 4, 1835, is best known for Erewhon (1872), his satire about Victorian society set in an imaginary, faux Utopia, and The Way of All Flesh (1903), considered his masterpiece, a semi-autobiographical novel published after his death. 👍 Like this quote on Goodreads 📖 Join the channel

📅 December 2, 2016 “There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.” ― Elizabeth Berg 👓 About the quote: Before she became a bestselling writer, Elizabeth Berg (born December 2, 1948) was a registered nurse, a profession that taught her much about human nature and relationships. The Chicago-based novelist, who won the 1997 New England Booksellers Award for her body of work, is the author of 26 books including Open House, Talk Before Sleep, What We Keep and The Year of Pleasures. 👍 Like this quote on Goodreads 📖 Join the channel

📅 December 1, 2016 “Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.” ― Candace Bushnell 👓 About the quote: Happy birthday, Candace Bushnell! The American novelist and television producer is best known for Sex and the City, a 1996 collection of essays based on her New York Observer column about single life in Manhattan. The book inspired the long-running HBO television series of the same name starring Sarah Jessica Parker. Bushnell is also author of The Carrie Diaries, Lipstick Jungle, One Fifth Avenue, and Four Blondes. 👍 Like this quote on Goodreads 📖 Join the channel

📅 November 30, 2016 “Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember.” ― David Mamet 👓 About the quote: David Mamet (born November 30, 1947) captures colloquial, everyday dialogue—often of the profane variety—in his plays and screenplays. Credit that, perhaps, to his early days as a Chicago taxi driver and factory worker. Moving from drama to satire to comedy, he won a Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross and received Oscar nominations for screenplays for The Verdict and Wag the Dog. 👍 Like this quote on Goodreads 📖 Join the channel