Shirley Hazzard — Australian Novelist born on January 30, 1931,

Shirley Hazzard is an Australian author of fiction and non-fiction. She was born in Australia, but holds citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States. Her 1970 novel, The Bay of Noon, was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010 and her 2003 novel The Great Fire won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction... (wikipedia)

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.