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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
I’ve a grand memory for forgetting, David.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Novel (1886), Kidnapped, ch. 18 “I Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore”
[Alan]More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #forgetting #memory #memoryloss #selectivememory
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Despite a long-lasting friendship by letter, JM Barrie & Robert Louis Stevenson never met, & Barrie never got to go to Samoa:
“Vailima was the one spot on earth I had any great craving to visit… I shall never go up the Road of Loving Hearts now, on ‘a wonderful clear night of stars,’ to meet the man coming toward me on a horse.”
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Samoa #RobertLouisStevenson #JMBarrie
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
The world is so full of a number of things,
I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Poem (1885), “Happy Thought,” A Child’s Garden of VersesMore about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #variety #abundance #blessings #bounty #happiness #plenty #satisfaction
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The Three Robins
9 September, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Free, ticketed.A talk on “The Three Robins: R. Burns, R. Fergusson and R. Louis Stevenson” presented by Prof David Purdie, MD. Medical Professor Emeritus & Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Edinburgh
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #RobertFergusson #RobertLouisStevenson #poetry #romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury
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The Three Robins
9 September, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Free, ticketed.A talk on “The Three Robins: R. Burns, R. Fergusson and R. Louis Stevenson” presented by Prof David Purdie, MD. Medical Professor Emeritus & Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Edinburgh
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #RobertFergusson #RobertLouisStevenson #poetry #romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury
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The Three Robins
9 September, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Free, ticketed.A talk on “The Three Robins: R. Burns, R. Fergusson and R. Louis Stevenson” presented by Prof David Purdie, MD. Medical Professor Emeritus & Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Edinburgh
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #RobertFergusson #RobertLouisStevenson #poetry #romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury
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The Three Robins
9 September, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Free, ticketed.A talk on “The Three Robins: R. Burns, R. Fergusson and R. Louis Stevenson” presented by Prof David Purdie, MD. Medical Professor Emeritus & Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Edinburgh
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #RobertFergusson #RobertLouisStevenson #poetry #romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury
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The Three Robins
9 September, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Free, ticketed.A talk on “The Three Robins: R. Burns, R. Fergusson and R. Louis Stevenson” presented by Prof David Purdie, MD. Medical Professor Emeritus & Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Edinburgh
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #RobertFergusson #RobertLouisStevenson #poetry #romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury
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*Well, I kinda figured, but that was worth a look.
*What if Walter Scott and his French wife Charlotte had been stuffing all their guests with mayonnaise. What if they had insisted that Washington Irving, their American disciple, had to eat mayonnaise #RobertLouisStevenson #Samoa #mayonnaise -
*I hear you, but your attitude is rank obscurantism. #Mahon #Balearic #Menorca #mayonnaise #France #Samoa #Scotland #globalization #RobertLouisStevenson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayonna...
Mayonnaise - Wikipedia
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Never allow your mind to dwell on your own misconduct: that is ruin. The conscience has morbid sensibilities; it must be employed but not indulged, like the imagination or the stomach.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 7.1 “Discipline of Conscience”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #conscience #despondency #error #failure #misconduct #morbidity #obsession #selfblame #selfcondemnation #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfdoubt #selfhatred #selfjudgment #selfloathing #selfreproach #shortcomings #sins
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“I was struck by just how fun, playful and jesting Barrie was. And while I knew they developed a friendship, I didn’t realise just how much the friendship with Stevenson meant to Barrie”
—A Friendship in Letters: Michael Shaw brings together correspondence between two of Scotland’s most famous writers – J.M. Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson
6/10
https://booksfromscotland.com/2020/11/a-friendship-in-letters/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #RobertLouisStevenson #19thcentury #Victorian #letters #correspondence
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“To be born is to be wrecked on an island.”
From the true-life adventure of Alexander Selkirk, through Daniel Defoe, RM Ballantyne, & Robert Louis Stevenson, John Pielmeier – author of HOOK’S TALE – follows a chain of real & fictional islands to JM Barrie’s Neverland…
3/10
https://lithub.com/visiting-the-actual-island-that-inspired-neverland/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #RobertLouisStevenson #DanielDefoe #RobinsonCrusoe
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
It is the business of this life to make excuses for others, but none for ourselves. We should be clearly persuaded of our own misconduct, for that is the part of knowledge in which we are most apt to be defective.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 1.1 “Justice and Justification”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #criticism #excuses #forgiveness #selfawareness #selfblame #selfconsciousness #selfcorrection #selfcriticism #selfdiscipline #selfdoubt #selfevaluation #selfimprovement #selfjudgment #selfopinion #selfregard #blame #selfblame #accountability
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 7.4 “Discipline of Conscience”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #contentment #endeavor #failure #goodspirits #keeptrying #meaningoflife #success #tryagain
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect. We should have been cut-throats to do otherwise. And there’s an end. We ought to know distinctly that we are damned for what we do wrong; but when we have done right, we have only been gentlemen, after all. There is nothing to make a work about.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 6 “Right and Wrong”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #obviousdecision #dotherightthing #doinggood #duty #good #gooddeed #inevitability #naturalcourse #retrospect #virtue
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
To give the public what they do not want, and yet expect to be supported: we have there a strange pretension, and yet not uncommon, above all with painters. The first duty in this world is for a man to pay his way; when that is quite accomplished, he may plunge into what eccentricity he likes; but emphatically not till then.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman Who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #art #artistry #commercialism #creativity #earnings #income #makingaliving #makingmoney #practicality #pragmatism #publicopinion #responsibility #writing
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. These two unknowns the young man brings together again and again, now in the airiest touch, now with a bitter hug; now with exquisite pleasure, now with cutting pain; but never with indifference, to which he is a total stranger, and never with that near kinsman of indifference, contentment.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #adulthood #aesthetic #discontent #enthusiasm #experimentation #ignorance #likes #maturity #preferences #selfawareness #selfdevelopment #selfexamination #selfexploration #selfexpression #selfignorance #selfknowledge #selfperception #teen #wisdom #youngadult #youth
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In my latest "Looking Back on Genre History" segment on the #StarShipSofa #podcast, I discuss some contemporary revisitings of the classic THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE.
#SFF #JekyllAndHyde #ScienceFiction #FeministSF #TheSocietyForSoullessGirls #MyDearHenry #RobertLouisStevenson #Gothic #YALit #DarkAcademia #StarTrek #Books #Bookstodon
http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2023/07/12/starshipsofa-716-tara-campbell/