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"They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne.
We shall return at twilight from the lecture
pleased that the irrational is rational."
Wallace Stevens
(10/02/1879
08/02/1955)
US writer
"O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul."
Ernest Renan
(02/28/1823
10/02/1892)
French philosopher, historian
(same dates as Peter Medawar)
"His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse."
Graham Greene
(10/02/1904
04/03/1991)
English writer
"I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people."
Robert Runcie
(10/02/1921
07/11/2000)
English archbishop
"(Travel seems) not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant."
Jan Morris
(10/02/1926
)
Welsh writer
"Rock'n'roll is trying to convince girls to pay money to be near you."
Richard Hell
(10/02/1949
)
US singer, bassist (Television, Voidoids)
"When you're as rich as I am, you don't have to be political."
Sting
(10/02/1951
)
English bassist, singer (Police)
"The 49ers were so badly flattened that they didn't fly back to San Francisco, they were faxed."
Scott Ostler
(10/02/????
)
US columnist
, on a 1993 football playoff loss
"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."
Marcel Duchamp
(07/28/1887
10/02/1968)
French surrealist
"It's definitely going to change my image. Rock stations are calling me now because I'm naked."
Tiffany
(10/02/1971
)
US singer
, on posing nude for Playboy
"I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people."
Hazel Scott
(06/11/1920
10/02/1981)
Trinidadi-US pianist, singer
"I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock."
Rock Hudson
(11/17/1925
10/02/1985)
US actor
"I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not."
Sir Peter B. Medawar
(02/28/1915
10/02/1987)
Brazil-born British zoologist
(same dates as Ernest Renan)
"I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible."
August Wilson
(04/27/1945
10/02/2005)
US playwright
"If you're not getting older, you're dead."
Tom Petty
(10/20/1950
10/02/2017)
US singer, songwriter
"A great catch is like watching girls go bythe last one you see is always the prettiest."
Bob Gibson
(11/09/1935
10/02/2020)
US baseball player
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