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I am a man of constant sorrow I've seen trouble all my days I'll say goodbye to Colorado Where I was born and p...

“What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself—life hurrying past us and running aw...

The novelist Vladimir Nabokov, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia (1899). He described himself as "a perfectly normal trilingu...

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On Easter morning all over America the peasants are frying potatoes in bacon grease. We're not supposed to have "peasants" b...

The trouble with pleasure is the timing it can overtake me without warning and be gone before I know it is here it can stand facing me unre...

from Song of Myself 46 I know I have the best of time and space, and was never measured and never  will be measured. I tram...

*The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. *Ultimately a hero is ...

Novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts (1941). After college he decided to join the Peace Corps i...

Norman Mailer was born in Long Branch, New Jersey (1923). Mailer wrote The Naked and the Dead (1948), considered one of the best novel...

Touched by an Angel We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its h...

Gore Vidal said that the Puritans went to America not because they were persecuted but because they had lost the right to persecute others....

My Father Comes to the City  Tonight his airplane comes in from the West, and he rises from his seat, a suitcoat slung over hi...

*The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of fore...

Mark Sykes, the MP who negotiated the Sykes-Picot agreement with France to determine control of former Ottoman territory in the Middle East...

Author Thomas Clayton Wolfe, was born in Asheville, North Carolina (1900). His childhood in the boardinghouse at 48 Spruce Street colo...

After great pain, a formal feeling comes— The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs— The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, A...

IN THE latter part of the last century, there lived a man of science--an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy--who, ...

Novelist Willa Cather, was born Wilella Cather in the village of Back Creek near Winchester, Virginia (1873). The Cathers had a hired g...

The sixteenth president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln was born near Hodgenville, Kentucky (1809). He was raised on farms in K...