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Robert Graves, c. 1914, age 19. Reported dead at the Somme, Graves was one of the few of his generation to survive World War I. He became a translator, poet, and novelist, and was the author of I, Claudius. Graves died at the age of 90 in 1985.
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Mikhail Bulgakov –From Russiapedia Literature Prominent Russians
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Edna St. Vincent Millay at Vassar College, 1914. Photo by Arnold Genthe
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Willa Cather at 13 in Red Cloud, Nebraska - courtesy of the Nebraska State Historical Society
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Carson McCullers photographed by Louise Dahl-Wolfe, 1940
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James Baldwin ~ “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”
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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. - Hermann Hess
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"Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it." -- Joseph Conrad
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Diane Rombough Thank you.
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark” – Tagore
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904): a very handsome Russian author and playwright, 1887.
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Leon Uris on patrol in the Negev Desert during research for his book, Exodus
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Statue of Keats in the grounds of Guy's Hospital. Stuart Williamson 2007
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Tallulah Feenie Puts me in mind of that oft quoted line from M.Twain: "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."