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"Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy."
William Warburton
(12/24/1698
06/07/1779)
English bishop, literary critic
"Feed the musician, and he's out of tune."
George Crabbe
(12/24/1754
02/03/1832)
English writer
"Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."
Lord Viscount John Morley
(12/24/1838
09/23/1923)
English historian
"Darling, you stink so beautiful."
Michael Curtiz
(12/24/1886
04/11/1962)
US film director
, to a perfumed actress
"The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure."
I. F. Stone
(12/24/1907
06/18/1989)
US writer
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
John Muir
(04/21/1838
12/24/1914)
Scottish naturalist
"The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet."
Mary Higgins Clark
(12/24/1927
01/31/2020)
US writer
("A Stranger Is Watching")
"Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you."
Jill Bennett
(12/24/1931
10/04/1990)
Malayan actor
(was married to John Osborne)
"For those who missed it the first time, this is your golden opportunity; you can miss it again." *
Michael Billington
(12/24/1941
06/03/2005)
English actor
"I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style."
Louis Aragon
(10/03/1897
12/24/1982)
French writer
"In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?"
Harold Pinter
(10/10/1930
12/24/2008)
English writer
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