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“No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'”

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Stacy Schiff is an American author renowned for her biographical works. Born on October 26, 1961, in New York, she graduated from Harvard University and later obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University. Schiff's writing style is distinctive, and she excels at delving into the lives and achievements of historical figures. Her works have won numerous literary awards. more

“There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and cryptogams, and between mammals and birds [...]. The improbability may henceforth be taken for granted of finding in Nature a sharp cleavage between all that is masculine on the one side and all that is feminine on the other; or that any living being is so simple in this respect that it can be put wholly on one side, or wholly on the other, of the line.”

May Form Sides Lines Simple Animal Taken Findings Bird Plant Granted Combination Feminine Chemicals Metals Masculine Mixtures Taken For Granted Mammals Cleavage Improbability

Author:Otto Weininger

“But the higher a man mounts, the greater may be his fall; all genius is a conquering of chaos, mystery.”

Mystery Genius Chaos Conquer

Author:Otto Weininger

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