Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...
Halldór Laxness (1902 – 1998):
“Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and
one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn with them. It is certain
that people would understand one another better and love one another more if
they would admit to one another how lonely they were, how sad they were in
their tormented, anxious longings and feeble hopes.”
and
“Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on
earth.”
J.P. Donleavy (1926 - ):
“When I'm dead, I hope it may be said: his sins were scarlet,
but his books were read.”
and
“Writing: Turning one's worst moments into profit.”
Arthur Phillips (1969 - ):
“Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that
claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.”
John Oliver (1977 - ):
“The world's become so horrifying now. It's too easy to
become cynical about things and that's not fair and it doesn't work. And in
fact, there is hope for the world. And it is in the form of Wikipedia. Now
Wikipedia will save us all. I found this out when recently a friend of mine
emailed me and he said that someone had created a Wikipedia entry about me. I
didn't realize this was true, so I looked it up. And like most Wikipedia
entries, it came with some flamboyant surprises, not least amongst them my
name. Because in it it said my name was John Cornelius Oliver. Now my middle
name is not Cornelius because I did not die in 1752. But obviously, I wanted to
be. Cornelius is an incredible name. And that's when it hit me --the way the
world is now, fiction has become more attractive than fact. That is why
Wikipedia is such a vital resource. It's a way of us completely rewriting our
history to give our children and our children's children a much better history
to grow up with. We seem to have no intention of providing them with a future.
Let's at least give them a past. It is in a very real sense the least we can
do.”
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