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📅 March 17, 2017
“Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.”
― Kate Greenaway
👓 About the quote:
Children's book illustrator and writer Kate Greenaway (born March 17, 1846) drew little boys and girls dressed in fashions popular a century earlier. Her drawings were used as inspiration for a line of children's clothes by the fashion label Liberty.
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📅 March 15, 2017
“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
― Ben Okri
👓 About the quote:
Happy 58th birthday, Ben Okri! As a teenager, the Nigerian poet and novelist lived through his country's civil war. He originally wanted to be a physicist, but soon decided that poetry was his true calling.
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📅 March 13, 2017
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne du Maurier
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Although Daphne du Maurier (born March 13, 1907) tore up the first 15,000 words of her novel Rebecca, she managed to finish the tale of jealousy and suspicion in just four months.
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📅 March 11, 2017
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams
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Douglas Adams (born March 11, 1952) first came up with the idea for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when he was traveling around Europe—inspiration struck when he was lying in a field in Austria, drunk. So long, and thanks for all the fish!
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📅 March 9, 2017
“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
― Keri Hulme
👓 About the quote:
Happy 70th birthday, Keri Hulme! The New Zealand-born author won a Booker Prize for her first—and only—novel, The Bone People.
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📅 March 7, 2017
“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost
👓 About the quote:
On this day in 1923, Robert Frost's most well-known poem, Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, was published.
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📅 March 5, 2017
“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
― Steve Wozniak
👓 About the quote:
On this day in 1975, the Homebrew Computer Club had its first meeting. Steve Wozniak was a founding member of this group of Silicon Valley computer hobbyists and says that it inspired the Apple I.
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📅 March 3, 2017
“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
― Ira Glass
👓 About the quote:
Happy 58th birthday, Ira Glass! The host of the popular public radio show, This American Life, comes from an accomplished family. His cousin is composer Philip Glass and his mother, Shirley Glass, is a psychologist who has done pioneering research on infidelity.
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📅 March 1, 2017
“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison
👓 About the quote:
Ralph Ellison (born March 1, 1914) took about six years to write his first novel, Invisible Man, which won a National Book Award. His second, Juneteenth, had a harder road. First, 300 pages of the manuscript burned in a house fire, then he wrote 2,000 pages that were pared down and published posthumously.
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📅 February 27, 2017
“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw
👓 About the quote:
Author Irwin Shaw (born February 27, 1913) had written two popular novels when he was placed on the Hollywood blacklist. As a result he moved to Europe, but his work continued to be widely read in America.
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📅 February 25, 2017
“Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”
― Neil Jordan
👓 About the quote:
Happy 67th birthday, Neil Jordan! His original dream was to write fiction, but Jordan successful films soon overshadowed his novels—he's written and directed The Crying Game, Michael Collins, and Breakfast on Pluto.
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📅 February 23, 2017
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett
👓 About the quote:
Happy 62nd birthday, Tom Bodett! Though he's best known for his role as the Motel 6 spokesman, he's also a novelist and essayist.
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📅 February 21, 2017
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anaïs Nin
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Best known for her candid diary, writer Anaïs Nin (born February 21, 1903) also appeared in the work of experimental filmmakers Kenneth Anger and Maya Deren.
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📅 February 19, 2017
“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
― Amy Tan
👓 About the quote:
Happy 65th birthday, Amy Tan! The Joy Luck Club author became consumed with the idea of fate and chance at age 15, when her older brother and her father died of brain tumors within a year of one another.
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📅 February 17, 2017
“See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!”
― Giacomo Puccini
👓 About the quote:
Puccini's legendary opera, Madame Butterfly, premiered in Milan, 103 years ago today. It was a disaster and closed after a single night. But after a revision, the opera reopened to an adoring crowd and has remained a hit.
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📅 March 16, 2017
“I consider my work optimistic in that the people, during the period I’m writing about them, are experiencing intense emotion. It is my belief that this is all there is to it.”
― Don Carpenter
👓 About the quote:
Don Carpenter (born March 16, 1931) chased popular success as a novelist, but largely made his living as a screenwriter. He was good friends with Anne Lamott, who dedicated her best seller, Bird by Bird, to Carpenter.
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📅 March 14, 2017
“I am a citizen of the world.”
― Sylvia Beach
👓 About the quote:
"Lost Generation" writers like Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and F. Scott Fitzgerald made Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company their Parisian gathering place. Its owner, Sylvia Beach (born March 14, 1887), also published Ulysses.
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📅 March 12, 2017
“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
― Jack Kerouac
👓 About the quote:
Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac (born March 12, 1922) is credited with naming his own literary movement. He took the word "beat" from "deadbeat" to "beatific" and in the process became known as the voice of his generation.
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📅 March 10, 2017
“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
― Clare Boothe Luce
👓 About the quote:
Clare Booth Luce (born March 10, 1903) had a wildly varied and successful life—as a child she understudied Mary Pickford, later she was an editor at Vanity Fair, wrote a hit play, The Women, was a noted war correspondent, served two terms in Congress, and was ambassador to Brazil. She was also a participant in some of the first LSD experiments.
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📅 March 8, 2017
“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides
👓 About the quote:
Happy 57th birthday, Jeffrey Eugenides! When the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist was in college, he took a year off to volunteer with Mother Teresa—the experience inspired a similar trip in his third novel, The Marriage Plot.
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📅 March 6, 2017
“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner
👓 About the quote:
Happy 70th birthday, Rob Reiner! The director of When Harry Met Sally... and The Princess Bride got his start as a writer on The Smothers Brothers.
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📅 March 4, 2017
“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini
👓 About the quote:
Before Khaled Hosseini (born March 4, 1965) became a novelist, he was a doctor. Even after his first book, The Kite Runner, was published, he continued to practice for another year and a half before deciding to write full time.
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📅 March 2, 2017
“You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
― Tom Wolfe
👓 About the quote:
Happy 86th birthday, Tom Wolfe! Though he is known for his dapper white suit and his association with New Journalism, the author also has an athletic side—in his college years Wolfe was a pitcher who earned a tryout with the New York Giants.
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📅 February 28, 2017
“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
― Michel de Montaigne
👓 About the quote:
Renaissance writer Michel de Montaigne (born February 28, 1533) pioneered the personal essay. He had a lot to draw on. His father was fond of childrearing experiments—young Michel lived in isolation with a peasant family until age 3, and then was brought back home but surrounded with Latin-speaking servants.
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📅 February 26, 2017
“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash
👓 About the quote:
When legendary musician Johnny Cash (born February 26, 1932) joined the Air Force, he wasn't allowed to use his birth name, J.R., so he named himself John. Based in Germany during the Korean War, Cash was a Morse Code interpreter and became the first American to know of Stalin's death.
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📅 February 24, 2017
“We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.”
― George Moore
👓 About the quote:
Admired by William Butler Yeats and Virginia Woolf, writer George Moore (born February 24, 1852) tried unsuccessfully to become an artist and a poet before turning to novels. He is now regarded as the first great modern Irish novelist.
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📅 February 22, 2017
“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
👓 About the quote:
Influential German thinker Arthur Schopenhauer (born February 22, 1788) wrote The World as Will and Representation, a Buddhist-influenced text that impacted the work of Nietzsche, Jung, and Freud, as well as Einstein.
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📅 February 20, 2017
“There's always some further action to take.”
― Pierre Boulle
👓 About the quote:
Two iconic novels that became classic films—Bridge Over the River Kwai (1958) and Planet of the Apes (1963)—were written by the same man, the French author Pierre Boulle (born February 20, 1912).
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📅 February 18, 2017
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison
👓 About the quote:
Happy 86th birthday, Toni Morrison! The Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner writes rich, sweeping novels, about the black experience in America. She was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford—'Toni' comes from her baptismal name, 'Anthony.'
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📅 February 16, 2017
“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams
👓 About the quote:
Historian Henry Adams (born February 16, 1838) published his memoirs, titled The Education of Henry Adams, privately. After his death they were reissued and won the Pulitzer Prize.
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