Today is the birthday of the following people:
Jeanette Winterson (1959 - ):
“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
and
“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
Theodore Dreiser (1871 – 1945):
“Love is the only thing you can
really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.”
and
“The most futile thing in this
world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All
individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most
capable.”
and
“When a man, however passively,
becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an
odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough.”
C.S. Forester (1899 – 1966):
“When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his
mother he is past all argument.”
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 –
1973):
“Yesterday is not ours to
recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
and
“Books and ideas are the most
effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.”
and
“We can draw lessons from the
past, but we cannot live in it.”
and
“[T]he vote is the most
powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and
destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different
from other men.”
Ira Levin (1929 – 2007):
“Anyone who needs more than one
suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler”
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