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Umberto Tosi is author of Ophelia Rising, an historical novel about the life of Shakespeare's fair maid before and after Hamlet. He is contributing editor of Chicago Quarterly Review. His published works include: Gunning for the Holy Ghost, Our Own Kind, Satan the Movie, My Dog's Name, High Treason and Milagro on 34th Street. He began a distinguished journalistic career as a writer and editor with the Los Angeles Times and went on to be editor of San Francisco Magazine, managing editor of Francis Ford Coppola's City Magazine, editor-in-chief of Diablo Magazine Group, and managing editor at MightyWords.com. His writing has appeared in scores of magazines and reviews. ...more

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	Ophelia Rising: "...we know what we are, but know not what we may be" 4.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Intelligent Guide to Finding What You Want, When You Want It, Online it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Pieter Breugel the Elder's engraving, The Battle of Money Bags and Strong Boxes depicts obsessive, destructive pernicious human greed. Prints of it by Volcxken Diercx's Four Winds Press in Antwerp were among Ophelia's favorites when she was the widow Diercx's house guest.”
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“Holy mother on a fork! It’s Prince Hamlet’s fair maiden!”
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“Be as the birds” He nodded to his pigeon crates. “Finding grace in how God made you, one with this world and the next. The pigeon does not pine to be a lark, or a cat, or a fish.”
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“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
― Theodore Parker

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“Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.”
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“Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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