A randomly selected quotation:
Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther. - Anne Rice
Authors born on
17 May:
- 1799 - Thomas Hood
- 1900 - Helen Steiner Rice
- 1911 - Maureen O'Sullivan
- 1912 - Archibald Cox
- 1920 - Harriet Van Horne
- 1936 - Dennis Hopper
- 1940 - Alan Kay
- 1962 - Craig Ferguson
Most popular authors in
April:
- Albert Einstein
- Mark Twain
- Leo Buscaglia
- Marge Piercy
- Voltaire
- Victor Hugo
- La Rochefoucauld
- Maya Angelou
- Leo Tolstoy
- Thomas Jefferson
- Vincent van Gogh
- Colin Powell
- Ram Dass
- Remy de Gourmont
- Bette Davis
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Abraham Lincoln
- Leo Rosten
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
- Adrienne Rich
- Emil Cioran
- Baltasar Gracian
- Teresa of Avila
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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