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I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But...

William (Cuthbert) Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi (1897). He grew up listening to stories about his family, including sever...

Café Of those at the table in the café where on winter noons a garden of frost glittered on windowpanes I alone surv...

 Amy Tan, was born in 1952, in Oakland, California. Tan is best known for her first novel, The Joy Luck Club. A first-generation daught...

The whiskey on your breath    Could make a small boy dizzy;    But I hung on like death:    Such waltzing was not easy. We ro...

I think what I will remember more than anything else about David is his distinct laugh and his great sense of humour. He always had a jok...

 Eu·rip·i·des  [yoo-rip-i-deez, yuh-]  Show IPA noun c480–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.  Related forms Eu·rip·i·de·an, adjective.

As the new world opened up and exotic specimens and curiosities were brought back from faraway lands a new thirst for knowledge of travel...

Prayer Great God, I ask for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now disce...

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build all the bombs You that hide ...

The purpose of life is to live and if one cannot mange that one should do one's best to survive. All life however is a preparation for ...

Aes·chy·lus  [es-kuh-luh s or, esp. British, ee-skuh-] * He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forge...

KING. What's he that wishes so?  My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin;  If we are mark'd to die, we are enow  To d...

Mowbray’s reaction to being banished. Instead of talking about how he’ll miss the family, his friends or his country, he makes a beautif...

HAMLET: To be, or not to be--that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous ...

William Shakespeare - All the world's a stage (from As You Like It 2/7) All the world's a stage, And all the men and women me...

Journalist, poet, novelist and biographer Carl Sandburg, born in Galesburg, Illinois (1878). As a hobo he collected and learned a number ...

The newly appointed poet laureate of the United States, Donald Hall was born in New Haven, Connecticut (1928). He's the author of ma...

T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, was born into a prominent Unitarian family in Saint Louis (1888). He was fond of his childhood, and he liked...

After the white balloons were swept away on the wind that had swallowed most of our vows, after the embraces and tears, the flung r...