This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
For what are stars but asterisks. To point a human life?
Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell
You fight against that devil for love as long as you may; when the time comes, not all the angels in heaven shall save him!
Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it anymore.
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Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
Oh Jake, Brett said, We could have had such a damned good time together. Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes, I said. Isn't it pretty to think so?
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Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appointments with a friend are habitually made for after midnight at the cafe.
Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
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Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara
Along the way, I had the opportunity to pass through the dominions of the United Fruit, convincing me once again of just how terrible these capitalist octopuses are. I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won't rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.
Circumstances | Famous | Father | Hunger | Important | Time | Loss | Child |
Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
None of us can help the things life has done to us. TheyÂ’re done before you realize it, and once theyÂ’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what youÂ’d like to be, and youÂ’ve lost your true self forever.
Contempt | Experience | Father |
Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
My general response to boarding school was: anything to get away from that fucking mother of mine. She was a monster.
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
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Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
Downstairs Peter Beste-Chetwynde mixed himself another brandy and soda and turned a page in Havelock Ellis, which, next to The Wind in the Willows, was his favourite book.
Church | Faith | Father | Hunger | People | Religion | Right | Words | Worth | Think |
Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
Please bear in mind throughout that IT IS MEANT TO BE FUNNY.
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