Arts and Literature
- 31 October – Boyband Westlife score their seventh straight UK number one, becoming the only artists in UK chart history to achieve this.
- John Banville's novel Eclipse is published.
- Anne Enright's novel What Are You Like? is published.
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“No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.”
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Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and
metaphor.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)