Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Wikipedia Born : June 6, 1875, Free City of Lübeck Died : August 12, 1955, Zürich, Switzerland Movies : Death in Venice , The Severed Heads , Buddenbrooks , MORE Children : Klaus Mann , Erika Mann , Golo Mann , Michael Mann , Elisabeth Mann Borgese , Monika Mann Quotes A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. “To find peace in the presence of the faultless is the desire of the one w ho seeks excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?” --from DEATH IN VENICE (1912) by Thomas Mann ------- Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes written as Erwin Schrodinger or E