Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
André Gide
Born: November 22, 1869
Died: February 19, 1951 (aged 81)
Bio: André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947.
Known for:
- The Counterfeiters (1925)
- The Immoralist (1902)
- Strait Is the Gate (1909)
- The Fruits of the Earth (1897)
- La Symphonie Pastorale (1919)
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