Events
- November 17 - American expatriate Sylvia Beach opens the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris.
- Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain return to Somerville College, Oxford, to complete their education following war service.
- Two paintings by E. E. Cummings appear in a show of the New York Society of Independent Artists.
- Vladimir Nabokov leaves Russia with his family.
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“It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)