Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Herman Wouk
Born: May 27, 1915
Died: May 17, 2019 (aged 103)
Bio: Herman Wouk was an American author whose best-selling 1951 novel The Caine Mutiny won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Known for:
- The Caine Mutiny (1951)
- The Winds of War (1971)
- War and Remembrance (1978)
- Marjorie Morningstar (1955)
- Don't Stop the Carnival (1965)