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809 pages ; 22 cm |
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The Reaction was Immediate and Senstational / Charles Darwin (1809-1882) -- He Offered Provocations instead of Panaceas / Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) -- I am such better Qualified to Squander 60,000 francs than to earn them / Richard Wagner (1813-1883) -- It was unlikely to find many readers among the General Public / Karl Marx (1818-1883) -- A Great Urgency, an onward-going movement, the Tempo and forward thrust of a half-idealistic, half-materialistic, but ever-expanding America / Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- The Tragic and Challenging No / Herman Melville (1819-1891) -- That women might own and possess thier own Souls / Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) -- Dante merely visited Hell, Baudelaire came from there / Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) -- ...the Error of giving Intelligence to Matter / Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) -- He put Flesh upon Abstractions and turned ideas into greatly suffering men and women / Fyodor Dostoevsky (1812-1881) -- He Created the Modern Realistic Novel and, directly or indirectly, influenced all Writers of Fiction since his day / Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) -- The Greatest disorder of the mind is to allow the will to direct the belief / Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) -- That Man is right who has Allied himself most Closely with the Future / Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) -- Whatever he was-and he was almost everything - he was also its opposite / Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) -- ... scribbled on the backs of Recipes, on Brown Paper bages from the Grocer, inside Envelopes, and across small Scraps of paper / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- He Kept digging into the Reader's Ribs until they were Sore / Mark Twain (1835-1910) -- He Labored Furiously to Achieve an Effect of Quiet / Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) -- Physician to the body Politic / Emile Zola (1840-1902) -- He could not Reard a Pitiless Universe without Pity / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- When the Artist follows Nature, he Gets Everything / Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) -- It must be Indescribable and it must be Inimitable / Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) -- ... concreteness, facts, action and power... / William James (1842-1910) -- His readers are divided into two unalterably opposed camps / Henry James (1843-1916) -- Take rhetoric and wring its neck / Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) -- A Spasmodic cry of joy, a passionate glorification of God's world / Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) -- How to Philosophize with a Hammer / Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) -- His brain had the highest cash value in history / Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) -- Not trees, but growth, not blossoms, but bloom / Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) -- Life is a problem for everybody / Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) -- It is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely neccessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often / George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) -- ... compounded of wit and ferocity, slowly accumulating clauses and quickly stabbing thoughts / Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) -- A startling but balanced philosophy / Max Planck (1858-1947) -- And malt does more than Millon can To justify God's ways to man / A.E.Housman (1859-1936) -- His speculations spread from salon to salon almost as fast as the latest gossip / henri Bergson (1859-1941) -- Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-eduring process of perfecting , maturing , refining, is the aim of living / John Dewey (1859-1952) -- Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress / Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) -- He delighted in confessing his fondness for every kind of gluttony / Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918) -- When you looked at the first page you said, 'Gee Whiz.' When you saw the second page, you gasped, 'Holy Moses!' And when you glimpsed the third page, you exclaimed 'Good God Almighty!' / William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) -- The little Man's little man / Henry Ford (1863-1947) -- ... And everywhere, ugliness has its beautiful aspects... / Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) -- The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- He claimed an unlimited right to think, criticize, discuss and suggest / H.G.Wells (1866-1946) -- The Earth, the Universe, belongs to Everyone / Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) -- Human flight is not only impossible but illogical / Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) and Orville Wright (1871-1948) |
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Pierre's first gift was a copy of his latest pamphlet, 'On Symmetry in Physical Phenomena: Symmetryof an Electric Field and of a Magnetic Field.' / Marie Curie (1867-1934) -- I intend to be the greatest architect that ever lived / Frank Lloyd Wright (1869- ) -- He had the might of a dictator and the mind of a democrat / Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) -- The world frightens me / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- He does more harm than alcohol / Henri Matisse (1869-1957) 00 from Spark to Flame / Nikolai Lenin (1870-1924) -- The brutal and the breath-taking, the vulgar and the pitiful / Georges rouault (1871- ) -- Little boy lost ... torn between integrity and expediency / Marcel Proust (1871-1922) -- He had no talent, but a great deal of genius / Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) -- .. all inside - he had no surface / Stephen Crane (1871-1900) -- The wish to discover whether we possess anything that can be called knowledge / Bertrand Russell (1872- ) -- Simplify! Simplify! / Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) -- His poems are pople talking / Robert Frost (1894- ) -- There are no limits in science / Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) -- I am finished, he wrote in 1915 / Winston Churchill (1874- ) -- Reverence for life / Albert Schweitzer (1875- ) The Santa Claus of Ioneliness / Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) -- Born under a dancing star / Isadora Duncan (1878-1927) -- I cannot belive that God plays dice with the Cosmos / Albert Einstein (1879-1955) -- Genghis Khan with a telephone / Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) -- Clean bbrevity, dispassionate truth, free spirit of inquiry / Lytton Strahchey (1880-1932) -- WIthout reason, without hope / Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) -- A triumph of accident / Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) -- Painting is not done to decorate apartments ... It is an instrument of war against brutality and darkness / Pablo Picasso (1881- ) -- There is nothing I love so much as a good fight / Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) -- To achieve a multi-dimensional effect ... a multi-dimensioinal language / James Joyce (1882-1941) -- Beauty is the essence and glory of order (1882- ) -- Man's logic is his best instrument / Arthur Eddington (1882-1944) -- I have none of the qualities needed for a successful life / Franz Kafka (1883-1924) -- He lodged a piece of the continent in the world's imagination / Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) -- He had the habit of catching human beings when they think no noe is looking at them / Ring Lardner (1885-1933) -- He was sure that instinct ws superior to intelligence / D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) -- It is easy to belittle the eccentric theorist, but the poet must bot be deprecated / Ezra Pound (1885- ) -- The boredom, and the horror, and the glory / T.S.Eliot (1888- ) -- The world drives men to assume characters which are not thier own / Eugene O'Neil (1888-1953) -- Pan, too, had been much assailed / Charles Chaplin (1889- ) -- The gutter had come to power / Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) -- I wish I were twenty-two again / F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) -- His work celebrates the dark grandeur of destruction / William Faulkner (1897- ) -- He lived in a kind of fitful radiance / George Gershwin (1898-1937) -- Half the young writers tried to imiteate him and half tried not to / ernest Hemingway (1899- ) -- ... the fierce energy that will not be beaten into form / Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) -- ... the story of art is the story of man / Andre Malraux (1901- ) -- ... the hectic and impossible existence that is known as the lot of man / Jean-Paul Sartre (1905- ) -- People do not understand that it is possible to believe in a thing and ridicule it at the same time / W.H.Auden (1907- ) -- ... whirling images, wild metaphors, and a high eldritch music / Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) |
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Biography -- 19th century.
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Biography. |
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19th century |
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Biography -- 20th century.
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20th century |
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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