Quote of the day
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.
Mikhail Sholokhov

Born: May 24, 1905
Died: February 21, 1984 (aged 78)
Bio: Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov was a Soviet/Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Known for:
- And Quiet Flows the Don (1928)
- Destiny of a Man (1957)
- Virgin Soil Upturned (1935)
- The Don Flows Home to the Sea (1940)
- The Fate of a Man (1956)