Quote of the day
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
Gregor von Rezzori

Born: May 13, 1914
Died: April 23, 1998 (aged 83)
Bio: Gregor von Rezzori, born Gregor Arnulph Hilarius d'Arezzo, was an Austrian-born, Romanian, German-language novelist, memoirist, screenwriter and author of radio plays, as well as an actor, journalist, visual artist, art critic and art collector.
Known for:
- Memoirs of an Anti-semite (1989)
- The snows of yesteryear (1989)
- Maghrebinische Geschichten (1953)
- Oedipus at Stalingrad (1994)
- The Orient-Express (1992)