Author: Irving Wallace

Cites

• Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1)
  • IN: The Prize (1962) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The whole of my remaining realizable estate shall be dealt with in the following way: The capital shall be invested by my executors in safe securities and shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind. The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts…’
    FROM: Nobel's will, (1895), Legal document, Sweden
• St. Augustine (1)
  • IN: The Prize (1962) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The honours of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Algeria
• Frederick Douglass (1)
  • IN: The Man (1964) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One of the author’s prized possessions is an original autographed manuscript, written firmly with pen on cheap ruled paper, signed by a former Negro slave who became a great reformer, lecturer, writer, adviser to President Abraham Lincoln, United States Minister to Haiti, and candidate for Vice-President of the United States on the Equal Rights Party ticket in 1872. The manuscript reads as follows: In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of the human family, there should be, as before the Law, no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no black, no white, but one country, one citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny for all. A Government that cannot or does not protect the humblest citizen in his right to life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, should be reformed or overthrown, without delay.
    FROM: Frederick Douglass Washington D.C. Oct. 20. 1883, (1883), NULL, US