Today is the birthday of the following people:
Mae West (1893 – 1980):
“You only live once, but if you
do it right, once is enough.”
and
“There are no good girls gone
wrong - just bad girls found out.”
and
“Between two evils, I always
pick the one I never tried before.”
Ted Hughes (1930 – 1998):
“The only calibration that
counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of
being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is
that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart,
didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
and
“The inmost spirit of poetry,
in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and
the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet
tries to reconcile that pain with the world.”
V.S. Naipaul (1930 - ):
“The only lies for which we are
truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
and
“Non-fiction can distort; facts
can be realigned. But fiction never lies.”
Kevin Rowland (1953 - ):
“These people round here
Wear beaten-down eyes sunk in
smoke-dried faces
They're so resigned to what
their fate is
But not us (no, never)
No, not us (no, never)
We are far too young and clever
(remember)”
Jonathan Franzen (1959 - ):
“Nice people don't necessarily
fall in love with nice people.”
and
“But the first lesson reading
teaches is how to be alone.”
Eric Schlosser (1959 - ):
“The history of the twentieth
century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state
power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail
excessive corporate power.”
and
“The United States now has more
prison inmates than full-time farmers.”
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