Author of many plays

supported socialism and tempted by fascism

“What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.”



George Bernard Shaw (1856-1956)
an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, political activist

The unselfish giant ...

"This wallpaper is atrocious either it or I have to go."

"You came to me to learn the pleasure of life and the pleasure of art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful ... the meaning of sorrow and its beauty"

... Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), author and wit

... the inner music that words make

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act".  

     ... Truman Capote (1924-84)

Who's listening?

"There was never an uninteresting life ... inside the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy". Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Anne of Green Gables ... the rest of the story

"Some lives seem to be more essentially tragic than others , and I fear mine is one of such"

... Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)