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Michael Paterniti

Roger Pearson

Charles Peirce

(1839 - 1914)

Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.

Fernando Pessoa

(1888 - 1935)

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya. Photograph by David Shankbone (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Black and white image of Greek biographer and writer Plutarch.

Plutarch

(46 - c. 120)

Painting of François Rabelais.

François Rabelais

(1494 - 1553)

Damon Runyon

(1880 - 1946)

Portrait of young Arthur Schopenhauer wearing a brown suit and a cravat.

Arthur Schopenhauer

(1788 - 1860)

Engraving of William Shakespeare from the first folio edition.

William Shakespeare

(1564 - 1616)

Polish-born American writer Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

(1903 - 1991)

Greek dramatist Sophocles.

Sophocles

(c. 496 BC - 406 BC)

British writer Laurence Sterne.

Laurence Sterne

(1713 - 1768)

Tom Stoppard

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

black and white photo of James Thurber lighting a cigarette in the new york times office

James Thurber

(1894 - 1961)

Black and white photograph of Russian author Leo Tolstoy.

Leo Tolstoy

(1828 - 1910)

Donald Trump

Black and white photograph of a young Mark Twain with dark hair.

Mark Twain

(1835 - 1910)

Usama Ibn Munqidh

(1095 - 1188)

Luisa Valenzuela

Image of French poet François Villon.

François Villon

(1431 - c. 1463)

Jeanette Winterson

Jia Yi

(c. 200 BC - 169 BC)