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Aug.5：Marilyn Monroe, Hans Christian Andersen



Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales.Wikipedia
Born: April 2, 1805, Odense, Denmark
Died: August 4, 1875, Østerbro, Denmark
Movies: Frozen, Thumbelina, The Little Mermaid, MORE
Short stories: The Emperor's New Clothes, The Snowman, MORE
Quotes
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Where words fail, music speaks.
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

“His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.” 
―from "The Ugly Duckling"


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Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Famous for playing comic "dumb blonde" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and was emblematic of the era's attitudes towards sexuality. Wikipedia
Born: June 1, 1926, Los Angeles, California, United States
Died: August 5, 1962, Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, United States
Height: 1.66 m
Books: My Story, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters, MORE
Quotes
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
Actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe died on August 5th 1962. She was a voracious reader throughout her career, leaving behind a 400-book library with works by Milton, Dostoyevsky, Whitman, Hemingway and Kerouac

At times Monroe showed a real talent for poetry and its rhythm
Marilyn Monroe died on this day in 1962
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Windson Chen
2016年8月5日Taipei 台北市
1962年今天( 8月5日)
~ 顛倒眾生卻紅顏薄命，傳奇女神瑪麗蓮夢露香消玉殞 !
被人發現全裸死在住家床上，死因是服用過量巴比妥類藥物（Barbital，鎮靜安眠藥）。然而，陰謀論者一直認為夢露
並非自殺，而是被總統滅口!!!
歷史上的今天》8月5日──顛倒眾生卻紅顏薄命，傳奇女神瑪麗蓮夢露香消玉殞-風傳媒
五歲那年，我有了當演員的念頭。我愛玩，不喜歡周遭的世界，因為它有點冷酷，但我愛扮家家酒，這就像我能劃定自己的邊界……我可以創造…
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