Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania.
—Dorothy Parker
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—George Gordon, Lord Noel Byron, Don Juan iv. 52
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2009 | | Farewell Harold Pinter, the British playwright whose gifts for finding the ominous in the everyday and the noise within silence made him the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation.. |