Cervantes Prize Laureate

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“Modesty, ‘tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

“It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1934)