December 2010
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Happy Deathday Mr. Beckett!
Irish avant-garde playwright and poet Samuel Beckett died on this day in 1989 of respiratory failure. The writer was 83 years old and is buried at the Cimetière de Montparnasse, in Paris.
Beckett is best remembered for his play Waiting for Godot. Interestingly, this play was riginally dismissed by some critics as a strange play in which nothing happens. In case...
“To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Happy Deathday Mr. Fitzgerald!
Firstly, we would like to wish everyone a very Happy Winter Solstice!
Secondly, on this day in 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald died of heart failure in Hollywood, California. He was 44 years old.
Fitzgerald is naturally most remembered for his classic novels This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby. The publication of This Side of Paradise on March 26, 1920, made...
“Death is not the end. Death can never be the end.
Death is the road. Life is...”
– Sri Chinmoy
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