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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed”

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

1. He was born on July 21st 1899 in Illinois, United States.

2. He died on July 2nd 1961 (aged 61) in Idaho, United States.

3. His most famous work is The Old Man and the Sea (1952).

4. He was an influential American writer and journalist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1954) and the Pulitzer Prize.

5. He donated his Nobel Prize in Literature medal (1954) to the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, in Cuba.

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“Never fight with stupid people, they will grag for her level and they win for experience”

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

1. He was born on 30th November 1835 in Florida, Missouri, in the USA.

2. He died on 21st April 1910 in Stormfield, at the age of 74.

3. His most popular novel is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written in 1884.

4. He predicted his death.

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"Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all"

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

1. Toni Morrison was born in 1931 in Ohio, United States.

2. She was best known for her novel Beloved.

3. She won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

4. She was an important novelist.

5. She died in 2019 at the age of 88.

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"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same" from Wuthering Heights

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

1. She was born on 30th July 1818.

2. She died on 19th December 1848.

3. Her most famous work is Wuthering Heights.

4. She lived in Haworth.

5. She only wrote one poetry book.

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"Marley was dead , to begin with.There is no doubt whatever about that.The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk , the undertaker and the chief mourner. Scrooge signedit.And Scrooge´s name was good upon change, for anything he chose to but his hand. Now what appeared in front of Scrooge was his ghost!..."

from A Christmas Carol

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" When they entered , they found upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man in evening dress....."

from The Portrait of Dorian Grey

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" I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot or the look or the words which laid the foundation. It was too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had began"... from Pride and Prejudice

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"As I said this I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman speed. He bounded over the crevices in the ice, among which I had walked with caution; his stature, also, as he approached, seemed to exceed that of a man"....

from Frankestein

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“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. […] Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. Our labour tills the soil, our dung fertilises it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin. […]

from Animal Farm

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"To be, or not to be, that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles

And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,

No more; and by a sleep to say we end"

From Hamlet

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"Whatever have you been doing with yourself, Watson?" he asked in undisguised wonder, as we rattled through the crowded London streets. "You are as thin as a lath and as brown as a nut."

From Sherlock Holmes

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"I find myself wondering about humanity. Their attitude to my sister's gift is so strange. Why do they fear the sunless lands? It is as natural to die as it is to be born. But they fear her. Dread her. Feebly they attempt to placate her. They do not love her"....

from the comic The Sandman