Tag: Oscar Wilde
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An Encouraging Note to Mistake Makers
“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.” ― Oscar Wilde Some people come to the table with all of their research done. They’ve outlined every subplot of their future novel, they’ve studied the market,…
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Quote: “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” Oscar Wilde
Image: The artist Anders Zorn and his wife Emma.
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QUOTE: “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
When you write historical fiction people ask these types of questions: Did the Apache men really cut the noses off of women suspected of cheating? Did some people really get addicted to morphine after the Civil War? Did some people really have wounds that wouldn’t heal? Did people really know about homosexuality? The other day…
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A Word on Fashion
“……all the most ungainly and uncomfortable articles of dress that fashion has ever in her folly prescribed, not the tight corset merely, but the farthingale, the vertugadin, the hoop, the crinoline, and that modern monstrosity the so-called “dress improver”[i.e.bustle] also, all of them have owed their origin to the same error- the error of not…
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“The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.” Rebecca West
“Men and women, women and men. It will never work.” Erica Jong “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” Oscar Wilde
Author Adrienne Morris 