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Short family quotes. "A man should never neglect his family for business.”. — Walt Disney. quote about family. "The most important thing in the world is family and love.”. — John Wooden ...
Publication date. Summer 1953. " The River " is a Southern gothic short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor that was first published in 1953 about a very young boy who is taken by his babysitter to a preacher at a Christian healing where he is baptized in a river, and, the next day, runs away from home to the site of his baptism and ...
v. t. e. George Santayana (b. Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) was a Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. [2] Born in Spain, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States from the age of eight and identified as an American, yet always retained a valid ...
Juan Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta (Spanish: [ˈxwan ˈluna], Tagalog: [hwɐn ˈluna]; October 25, 1857 – December 7, 1899) was a Filipino painter, sculptor and a political activist of the Philippine Revolution during the late 19th century. He became one of the first recognized Philippine artists.
Henry Markowitz. Henry Markowitz, Rose's elder son, is an echo of his mother in many ways—notably in his tendency to invent his own history. Henry begins the novel as an employee in an art gallery in California. He is initially presented as a closeted gay man. When he becomes fed-up with the California gay scene, Henry moves to Oxford ...
The movie opens with Tracey Thurman being rushed to the hospital after being physically assaulted by her estranged husband, Buck. An extended flashback shows how Tracey and Buck met. Tracey was working in a hotel in Florida and came across Buck and his fellow construction workers. At first, Buck was a charming person, until, over time, he started to displ
In the case of the Ridiculous Man it is a vision through which an entirely new reality for human beings becomes possible. So-called 'real life' was something empty, something he fully intended to snuff out, but his dream revealed to him "another life, a great, renewed and powerful life." On several occasions during the telling of his story, he ...
Summary Old Zhuan and his wife, the proprietors of a small tea shop, save their money to buy a folk medicine cure for their son, Young Zhuan, who is dying of tuberculosis. The story opens with Old Zhuan leaving their shop and going to the home of the person selling the cure, a "roll of steamed bread, from which crimson drops were dripping to ...