Quote of the day
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
Elaine Scarry

Born: June 30, 1946 (age 79)
Bio: Elaine Scarry is an American essayist and professor of English and American Literature and Language. She is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University.
Known for:
- The body in pain (1985)
- On Beauty and Being Just (1999)
- Thinking in an Emergency (Norton Global Ethics Series) (1993)
- Dreaming by the book (1957)
- Resisting representation (1994)
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