Showing posts with label friend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friend. Show all posts

Thursday, April 26, 2012

NEVER EXPLAIN!


Never explain. 
Your friends do not need it 
and your enemies will not believe it anyway

~Elbert Hubbard
(1856 - 1915)
On May 7, 1915 -  Alice and Elbert Hubbard perish after their ship, the RMS Lusitania, is torpedoed by the Germans and sinks off the coast of Ireland.

Watch video's, view pictures, and read more about this interesting man:  http://www.pbs.org/wned/elbert-hubbard/index.php

Friday, February 24, 2012

"Just...be my friend."



“Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
~ Albert Camus
(He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1957.)

Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a deep interest in philosophy (only chance prevented him from pursuing a university career in that field), he came to France at the age of twenty-five. The man and the times met: Camus joined the resistance movement during the occupation and after the liberation was a columnist for the newspaper Combat. But his journalistic activities had been chiefly a response to the demands of the time; in 1947 Camus retired from political journalism and, besides writing his fiction and essays, was very active in the theatre as producer and playwright (e.g., Caligula, 1944). He also adapted plays by Calderon, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Faulkner'sRequiem for a Nun. His love for the theatre may be traced back to his membership in L'Equipe, an Algerian theatre group, whose "collective creation" Révolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons.  

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Friday, May 13, 2011