Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905–1977) the fifth President of India and a politician
Source: Presidents of India, 1950-2003, p. 104
18 February 1955, WSC to Eden’s private secretary Evelyn Shuckburgh.
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905–1977) the fifth President of India and a politician
Source: Presidents of India, 1950-2003, p. 104
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Whenever God Shines His Light
Song lyrics, Avalon Sunset (1989)
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
quote in his letter to brother Theo, from The Hague, The Netherlands in Jan. 1882; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, p. 20 (letter 171) <br class="br">1880s, 1882
Arnold Wesker (1932–2016) British dramatist
Chicken Soup with Barley, Act 3 (1958)
Reacting to the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary.
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
Memo to The New Yorker (1959); reprinted in New York Times Book Review (4 December 1988)
Letters and interviews
“You should shine with all of your light all the time.”
Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
“I continue
to believe in miracles. But i know that miracles come to those
who work very hard”
Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist
Source: The Gray Wolf Throne
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life