George Bernard Shaw (c. 1890) --"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― GBS, Man & Superman Photo by Sir Emery Walker, 1888. This is the only photo of him I've ever seen when he was young.
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Daphne Du Maurier (London, 1907 - Cornwall, 1989) wrote some of the most famous books of the 20th Century including Rebecca, Frenchman's Creek and Jamaica Inn. Born into a famous family and daughter of the actor, Gerald du Maurier, Daphne grew up surrounded by stars. She achieved fame as a published author in her twenties and went on to write a series of bestselling novels, which were also adapted for film and stage. Notoriously reclusive, she moved to Cornwall after the death of her…