María Victoria Casares y Pérez: (21 November 1922 – 22 November 1996). Spanish-born French actress and one of the most distinguished stars of the French stage and cinema. She was credited in France as Maria Casarès. Casares published her autobiography, Résidente privilégiée (Privileged Resident) in 1980, in which she described her 16-year affair with Albert… Lees verder Maria Casares
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Rosa Chacel
Rosa Clotilde Chacel Arimón: (June 3, 1898 – July 27, 1994). Famous and sometimes controversial writer from Spain. She was a native of Valladolid. Autumn opens in me a wound of tenderness.
Zinaida Nikolajevna Hippius
Zinaida Nikolayevna Hippius (Gippioes): (Saint Petersburg, 20 November 1869 – Paris, 9 September 1945). Russian poet and writer from the Symbolist school. The last days of August are a kind of whisper. Not the Autumn yet, but the smell of it. December’s immaculate coldness feels warm. December feels like blood. … Lees verder Zinaida Nikolajevna Hippius
Françoise Sagan
Françoise Sagan: Pseudonym of Françoise Quoirez. (Cajarc, Lot, 21 June 1935 — Honfleur, Calvados, 24 September 2004). French writer and film director. She was part of the Nouvelle Vague movement. We have as little freedom now as we did twenty years ago: back then, young girls were forbidden from having sex, now it has almost… Lees verder Françoise Sagan
Walter White
Walter Hartwell White Sr.: Also known by his alias Heisenberg, is the fictional character and the main protagonist of the American crime drama television series Breaking Bad. He is portrayed by Bryan Cranston. Sometimes it feels better not to talk. At all. About anything. To anyone.
James Burnham
James Burnham: (November 22, 1905 – July 28, 1987). American philosopher and political theorist. He chaired the New York University Department of Philosophy. His first book was An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis (1931). Burnham became a prominent Trotskyist activist in the 1930s. His most famous book, The Managerial Revolution (1941), speculated on the future of… Lees verder James Burnham
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor: (Hampstead (London), 27 February 1932 – Los Angeles, 23 March 2011). Also known as Liz, she was a British-American actress. She won an Oscar in 1960 for her leading role in Butterfield 8 and in 1966 for her leading role in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. She also received more than 35… Lees verder Elizabeth Taylor
Henri Nouwen
Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen: (Nijkerk, 24 January 1932 – Hilversum, 21 September 1996). Dutch Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Utrecht, professor at American universities and author of Christian books. We must dare to accept our brokenness, to become familiar with it, to befriend this ‘enemy’, to walk with it.
Jessica Verdi
Jessica Verdi: American author and editor of children’s books. Finding someone you can really connect with is like winning the lottery — It happens basically never, but if it does, you really shouldn’t blow it.
Steven Benson
Steven Wayne Benson: (July 26, 1951 – July 3, 2015). American convicted double murderer of his mother, tobacco heiress Margaret Benson, and his brother (actually his nephew but later adopted), tennis player Scott Benson. A woman who opens her heart to love you when it’s already been broken, is braver than any person you’ll meet.… Lees verder Steven Benson