跳到主要內容

Oct. 11：François Mauriac, Eleanor Roosevelt

François Charles Mauriac was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française, and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958.Wikipedia
Born: October 11, 1885, Bordeaux, France
Died: September 1, 1970, Paris, France
Spouse: Jeanne Lafon (m. 1913–1970)
Children: Claude Mauriac, Claire Mauriac, Luce Mauriac, Jean Mauriac
Quotes

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.





François Mauriac, The Art of Fiction No. 2
“Every novelist ought to invent his own technique, that is the fact of the matter. Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its…
THEPARISREVIEW.ORG
-----

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American politician, diplomat and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, having held the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her ... Wikipedia
Born: October 11, 1884, New York City, New York, United States
Died: November 7, 1962, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Full name: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Children: Elliott Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., MORE
Quotes

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.


She was fierce in her support of civil rights, acceptance of European refugees and the need to end empires. It is tempting to think that in a different era, Eleanor Roosevelt could have become president of the United States

羅斯福夫人回憶錄Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962 / 伊莉納・羅斯福著

The Economist
2016年11月2日 1:50
In her newspaper column, “My Day”, she urged that refugees from abroad be let in to America. “People are not throwing Americans out of work to employ refugees,” she wrote in 1939, sounding a theme that resonates today

留言

張貼留言

這個網誌中的熱門文章

4月18日：George Henry Lewes (1817-1878) : Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)舌辯大師丹諾；Samuel Huntington

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_18 For all his long career and prodigious energy he will always be associated with the phrase “the clash of civilisations”. How well does his argument hold up 24 years after he first penned it? Samuel Huntington was one of America's great public intellectuals The author of "The Clash of Civilisations?" was born on April 18th 1972 ECONOMIST.COM Samuel P. Huntington - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington Samuel  Phillips  Huntington  (April 18, 1927 – December 24, 2008) was an American political scientist, adviser and academic. He spent more than half a century .. As a consultant to the  U.S. Department of State , and in an influential 1968 article in  Foreign Affairs , he advocated the concentration of the rural population of  South Vietnam , via a strategy of carpet-bombing and defoliating the rural lands and jungles of ...
張貼留言
閱讀完整內容

Sep. 27: Hugh Hefner ; Zuzana Ruzickova; George Cruikshank； GOOGLE； 香港雨傘運動2014；

Zuzana Růžičková In Memoriam (14. 01.1927 - 27. 09.2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXVG1CWNE0M Zuzana Ruzickova harpsichordist and Holocaust survivor, dies Ruzickova survived persecution from the Nazis and Soviet communists before becoming one of the world's most acclaimed harpsichordists. She died in a Prague hospital after battling a short illness. Zuzana Ruzickova suffered decades of persecution on her journey to becoming an award-winning musician and world-famous harpsichordist. "She was a woman with incredibly tough experiences and traumas suffered during the Holocaust," music journalist Petr Veber told the Czech CTK news agency. "Fortunately, she survived and she was able to get over it." Born on January 14, 1927, Ruzickova was expelled from school for being Jewish shortly after Nazi Germany's occupation of Czechoslovakia at the beginning of the Second World War. In 1942, she and her family were interned at the Czech conc...
張貼留言
閱讀完整內容

Sep. 24：Euripides, Horace Walpole, Pablo Neruda

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, also known as Horace Walpole, was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. Wikipedia Born :  September 24, 1717,  London, United Kingdom Died :  March 2, 1797,  Berkeley Square, London, United Kingdom Movies :  Castle of Otranto Parents :  Robert Walpole ,  Catherine, Lady Walpole Quotes The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie. To mark the tercentenary of the birth of Horace Walpole (1717–1797), English author, antiquarian, collector, and politician, the Lewis Walpole Library is sponsoring programs throughout the year to ...
張貼留言
閱讀完整內容