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• Quicky quote

  
  Mahmood's Den — Authority: 470
  I can resist anything but temptation.– Oscar Wilde
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• A person so useless even Aaron Sorkin can’t be bothered with him

  
  Jenny's Books — Authority: 520
  I know this is the second time I’ve mentioned Aaron Sorkin in the past few days, but that’s only because I’m rewarding myself for applying to grad school by letting myself watch episodes of Sports Night and The West Wing .  Anyway, I’m watching Sports Night and this is the dialogue that just went by: ...
  2 days ago

• Oscar Wilde, Salomé, 1907

  
  Les cahiers d'Alain Truong — Authority: 154
  Oscar Wilde, Salomé . A tragedy in one act : Traslated from the french of Oscar Wilde, with sixteen Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. London and New-York, Lane, 1907, in-8, percaline verte illustrée des fers spéciaux de léditeur, tête dorée. Première édition anglaise illustré de dessins de Beardsley - ...
  3 days ago

• "I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

  
  Daily Cow — Authority: 504
  “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” - Oscar Wilde
  4 days ago

• Some Notable Twitterers (Tweeters?)

  
  College English — Authority: 422
  I’m sure everyone knows that Neil Gaiman and Stephen Fry tweet. Neil Gaiman’s blog is more interesting, but I enjoy Stephen Fry a lot. And Mrs Stephen Fry possibly even more! But there are other fun and interesting literary tweets that you can find and follow. One of my favourites is @proustr , which posts ...
  4 days ago

• Paris Breaks in the 20th Arrondissement

  
  Paris Breaks — Authority: 100
  Paris Breaks to the 20th Arrondissement Ok, the idea of going on Paris breaks in order to hang out entirely in the 20th is only semi-serious, it would be a bit like visiting London in order to spend all your time in Leytonstone or Newham, but that’s not quite as mad as it sounds. You’d be surprised at the number ...
  5 days ago

• Eine Aphorisme – Oscar Wilde

  
  :::Media-Digest — Authority: 136
  “Eine Idee, die nicht gefährlich ist, verdient es nicht, überhaupt eine Idee genannt zu werden.” Oscar Wilde
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• Oscar Wilde: The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

  
  Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote — Authority: 129
  As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. - John F. Kennedy The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. - Oscar Wilde When it comes to gratitude, and kindness, actions do speak louder than words. ...
  5 days ago

• an era ends, and another begins

  
  Baroque in Hackney — Authority: 493
  Okay well it isn’t very poetic but your correspondent here has been very busy the past few days and will continue be so for the next few. Today I begin my new job, a new period of employment, muffled under the protection of an immense bureaucratic machine; the helicopter arrives in an hour. (Editing in: now half an ...
  1 week ago

• “By the light of the Moon that which hides from the Sun may be revealed.” Rash Manly

  
  22MOON.COM — Authority: 491
  . . . . . “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” ...
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• Wildeana

  
  { feuilleton } — Authority: 473
  The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1907). I finished reading Neil McKenna’s excellent biography recently, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde , a book which makes an ideal companion to Richard Ellmann’s 1987 life of Wilde. Whilst reading about the two trials I remembered that among five pages of digitised Wilde volumes ...
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• Listening To Ghosts

  
  The House of Pomegranates — Authority: 110
  The curtains in our Aunt Charlotte’s study came from a Victorian funeral parlour , I kid you not, they smell of dust and incense and lilies. Her apartment has taken on a permanent chill now that winter is setting in, and we keep the dusty curtains drawn most of the time just to try and keep in the heat. Elizabeth ...
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• English 101 or 101 English huh?

  
  Nabweekly.ca — Authority: 128
  Have you ever stopped to think why the English language is such a difficult language to learn, maybe this is why we have to much illiteracy come out of our schools by the end of university! Can some please explain .. Why We Speak Like This!! The Monday Funday Funnies to start off your work week and make you go hmmm...
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• Stephen Fry passes the 1 million mark - and Sarah Brown - on Twitter

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  Mandrake wonders if Stephen Frys threat to give up Twittering - disclosed in this column on Nov 1 - wasnt all part of a cunning plan to generate enough publicity to push his followers over the one million mark.
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• Heroes: Oscar Wilde

  
  Allure-Allure — Authority: 120
  "Genius is born --not paid." "El genio nace, no se paga."
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• Oscar Wilde – select quotes

  
  Kevin Stilley Dot Com — Authority: 142
  All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. ~ in The Importance of Being Earnest Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Every great man nowadays has his ...
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• The secret of life is in art.

  
  2009 Artist Quote of the Day — Authority: 127
  Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest ...
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• Ten of the best: examples of ekphrasis

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  "In the Musée des Beaux Arts" by WH Auden Audens poem is one of the most famous examples of ekphrasis: the recreation in words of a work of art. It describes Pieter Brueghels painting Landscape With the Fall of Icarus , in which a man falls from the sky, but "the white legs disappearing into the green / Water" ...
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• Oscar & Henry on Amazon

  
  Baroque in Hackney — Authority: 493
  (strange as that sounds…) Look! You can pre-order it! “For Henry, having two countries meant staged risk, and privacy. For Oscar, having the world meant everything bet on the one toss. In a 20’s Modernist trope, this sequence hints at big unanalysed scandals by almost making them cockney rhyming slang: ...
  2 weeks ago

• HOMOVISION REHAB with THE SWARMITE: SACRIFICE

  
  Gay London videos and news, gay interviews, gay clubbing, gay health, gay comment and gay views on HOMOVISION.TV Gay TV, gay London videos and news, gay interviews, gay clubbing, gay health, gay comment and gay views on HOMOVISION.TV — Authority: 137
  Before chems became the main course and not the starter, GAY MEN’S HEALTH was all about catching the lurgee, the gay plague bestowed upon us by an unknown force and according to Donna Summer in the ’80’s, it was the Lord himself shouting down from above – no more bum fun for you lot. Sacrifice [...]
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