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"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading." - Mahatma Gandhi born #OnThisDay in 1869*
"The reader became the book." -Wallace Stevens is born #OnThisDay in 1879*
·Patti Smith reading Wallace Stevens*
#onthisdayillustrated September 22nd, 1994: Friends debuts on US TV. #illustration #friends http://t.co/XR8MKdeIOQ
#onthisdayillustrated August 13th 1964: Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen become the last two men to be hung in Britain.
American writer, Edith Wharton, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize (1921), died in France, #Onthisday 1937*
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―George R.R. Martin's 'A Game of Thrones' is published by Bantam Spectra/US & Voyager Books/UK*
#OnThisDay in 1996*
#onthisdayillustrated August 3rd 1936: Jesse Owens wins the 100 m at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. http://t.co/krZEjSShDr
Six year-old Sylvia Plath with her brother*
Plath’s journal entry written #Onthisday 1953*
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Artist Vincent van Gogh died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France, at age 37* #OnThisDay 1890*
'There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.'
-Robert Graves born #OnThisDay 1895* (d.1985).
Raymond Chandler, creator of detective Philip Marlowe, is born in Chicago #onthisday in 1888*
"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
―Jane Austen died at age 41 #onthisday 1817*
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J.D. Salinger's only novel, The Catcher in the Rye, is published by Little Brown #OnThisDay in 1951*
Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt was born #OnThisDay (1862)*
Gustav Klimt's studio in Hietzing, Vienna, 1918*
"What was our victory? A book, a book without loneliness."
-Pablo Neruda was born in Parral, Chile, #OnThisDay 1904*
'Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read all.'
―Henry David Thoreau born #OnThisDay in 1817*
John Steinbeck and Robert Capa travel to Soviet Union #Onthisday in 1947*
Ernest Hemingway is wounded during World War I and falls in love with a English nurse named Agnes, #onthisday 1918*