Quote of the day
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Frederick Crews
Born: February 20, 1933
Died: June 21, 2024 (aged 91)
Bio: Frederick Campbell Crews was an American essayist and literary critic. Professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, Crews is the author of numerous books, including The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James and E. M. Forster: The Perils of Humanism (1962).
Known for:
- Pooh Perplex (1963)
- Postmodern Pooh (2001)
- The Memory Wars (1995)
- Follies of the Wise (2006)
- Skeptical Engagements (1986)







