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"The artist, like the God of the Creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails." -- James Joyce, born on this day in Dublin, 1882.
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Today is the birthday of Langston Hughes, born in 1902 on this day in Missouri under the name James Mercer Langston Hughes. Hughes became a prominent…
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Today is the birthday of Norman Mailer (1923). His first novel, "The Naked and the Dead", it became the definitive literary novel about World War II…
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It is the birthday of historian Barbara Tuchman, born in New York City on this day in 1912. She wrote "The Guns of August", a study of the events that…
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It's the birthday of writer and politician Thomas Paine, born in Thetford, England (1737). He became wildly successful in the colonies with his long…
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On this day in France in 1873 the novelist Colette, born Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was born. She's the author of more than 50 novels. Collette said…
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It's the birthday of the writer whom Mark Twain called "the stillest and shyest full-grown man I have ever met." That's Lewis Carroll, born Charles…
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"The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile." - Hungarian…
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