Quote of the day
We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Lionel Abel

Born: November 19, 1910
Died: April 19, 2001 (aged 90)
Bio: Lionel Abel was an eminent Jewish American playwright, essayist and theater critic. He was also a translator, and was an authorized translator of Jean-Paul Sartre, who called Abel the most intelligent man in New York City.
Known for:
- Metatheatre (1963)
- Tragedy and metatheatre
- The intellectual follies (1984)
- Important nonsense (1987)






