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"The man that has no friend at court,
Must make the laws confine his sport,
But he that has, by dint of flaws,
may make his sport confine the laws."
Thomas Chatterton
(11/20/1752
08/24/1770)
English writer
"To give an accurate and exhaustive account of the period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine."
Sir Max Beerbohm
(08/24/1872
05/20/1956)
English writer and artist
("Zuleika Dobson")
"Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere."
Jean Rhys
(08/24/1890
05/14/1979)
Welsh-Dominican writer
("Wide Sargasso Sea")
"They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it much."
Malcolm Cowley
(08/24/1898
03/27/1989)
US writer
("Exile's Return")
"The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb."
Jorge Luis Borges
(08/24/1899
06/14/1986)
Argentine writer
"Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility."
Kate Douglas Wiggin
(09/28/1856
08/24/1923)
US writer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), educator
"Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you."
Yasser Arafat
(08/24/1929
11/11/2004)
Palestinian president
"Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses."
Simone Weil
(02/03/1909
08/24/1943)
French philosopher, mystic, activist
("The Need for Roots")
(sister of Andre Weil)
"I like the rapid punch of solid-state for the bottom, and the rodent-gnawing distortion of the tubes on top." *
John Cipollina
(08/24/1943
05/29/1989)
US guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service et al)
("Happy Trails")
, on his guitar rig
"It is stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it."
Ronald Knox
(02/17/1888
08/24/1957)
English writer, theologian
"When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault, you know why clothing exists."
Stephen Fry
(08/24/1957
)
English writer, actor
"Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me."
Marlee Matlin
(08/24/1965
)
US actor
"You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces."
Henry J. Kaiser
(05/09/1882
08/24/1967)
US industrialist
"Somebody broke into my house once; this is a good time to call the police, but mm mm, nope. The house was too nice. It was a real nice house, but they'd never believe I lived in it. They'd be like 'He's still here!'"
Dave Chappelle
(08/24/1973
)
US comic
"I don't meet competition. I crush it."
Charles Revson
(10/11/1906
08/24/1975)
Canadian executive, Revlon founder
"To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true."
Bayard Rustin
(03/17/1912
08/24/1987)
US civil rights leader
"Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
(07/08/1926
08/24/2004)
Swiss psychiatrist
"It is a paradox that as we reach our prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes."
Gail Sheehy
(11/27/1937
08/24/2020)
US writer
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