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Alredered Remembers mystery writer Archer Mayor, creator of policeman Joe Gunther, on his birthday.
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Alredered Remembers L.A. native and novelist Jose Antonio Villarreal,whose books concern Chicano life in the American Southwest, on his birthday.
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Alredered Remembers Italian painter, architect, and author of The Lives of the Artists Giorgio Vasari, on his birthday.
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Alredered Remembers Emily Bronte on her birthday.
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Alredered Remembers journalist and poet Don Marquis, on his birthday.
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Alredered Remembers African American novelist Chester Himes, on his birthday.
"Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress."
Chester Himes
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Alredered Remembers poet Stanley Kunitz, former Poet Laureate of the U.S., who won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, on his birthday.
"The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers."
-Stanley Kunitz
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Alredered Remembers South Korean-born American novelist Chang-rae Lee, on his birthday.
“It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.”
― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea
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Alredered Remembers Alexis de Tocqueville, French political scientist and writer, on his birthday.
"Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Alredered Remembers Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch, Dutch writer on war, especially the Holocaust, on his birthday.
'But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute.' -Harry Mulisch
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Alredered Remembers Swedish novelist and Nobelist Eyvind Johnson, on his birthday.
"And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one." - Eyvind Johnson
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Alredered Remembers U.S. novelist Booth Tarkington, on his birthday.
"An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband."
-Booth Tarkington
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Alredered Remembers British Christian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, on his birthday.
“What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.”
― Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Complete Poems
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Alredered Remembers British children's author Beatrix Potter, on her birthday.
“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter
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Alredered Remembers English novelist, short story writer, and poet [Clarence] Malcolm Lowry, on his birthday.
"Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end."
Malcolm Lowry
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Alredered Remembers Pulitzer Prize winning poet from Rochester, N.Y., John Ashbery, on his birthday.
"I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them." -John Ashbery
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Alredered Remembers U.S. free verse poet and novelist Kenneth Fearing, on his birthday.
“The awfulness of Monday morning is the world's great common denominator.”
― Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock
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