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Richard Burton


Born
in Pontrhydyfen, Wales, The United Kingdom
November 10, 1925

Died
August 05, 1984

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Librarian note: There is more than one author with this name in the Goodreads database.
Do not confuse with Richard Francis Burton
Richard Burton, CBE (10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. He was nominated seven times for an Academy Award – for My Cousin Rachel (1952), The Robe (1953), Becket (1964), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) and Equus (1977) – six of which were for Best Actor in a Leading Role, without ever winning. He was a recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony Awards for Best Actor. Although never trained as an actor, Burton was, at one time, the highest-paid actor in Hollywood.
He remains closely associated in the public consciousne
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The Richard Burton Diaries

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A Christmas story

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The Richard Burton Poetry C...

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Hellraisers by Robert Selle...

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Meeting Mrs. Jenkins

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Richard Burton Anthology

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Burton at the BBC

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It Cuts Me Deeply: A Journe...

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Forces in fiction and other...

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“Home is where the Books are.”
Richard Burton, The Richard Burton Diaries

“I am madly in love with her at the moment, as distinct from always loving her, and want to make love to her every minute.”
Richard Burton

“Now her hair is like the nights of disunion and separation and her face like the days of union and delectation; She hath a nose like the edge of the burnished blade and cheeks like purple wine or anemones blood-red: her lips as coral and carnelian shine and the water of her mouth is sweeter than old wine; its taste would quench Hell's fiery pain. Her tongue is moved by wit of high degree and ready repartee: her breast is a seduction to all that see it (glory be to Him who fashioned it and finished it!); and joined thereto are two upper arms smooth and rounded; She hath breasts like two globes of ivory, from whose brightness the moons borrow light, and a stomach with little waves as it were a figured cloth of the finest Egyptian linen made by the Copts, with creases like folded scrolls, ending in a waist slender past all power of imagination; based upon back parts like a hillock of blown sand, that force her to sit when she would fief stand, and awaken her, when she fain would sleep, And those back parts are upborne by thighs smooth and round and by a calf like a column of pearl, and all this reposeth upon two feet, narrow, slender and pointed like spear-blades, the handiwork of the Protector and Requiter, I wonder how, of their littleness, they can sustain what is above them.”
Richard Burton, The Arabian Nights

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