Today is the birthday of the following people:
George R.R. Martin (1948 - ):
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only once.”
and
“A mind needs a book like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
and
“There is only one God and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: Not Today.”
Upton Sinclair (1878 – 1968):
“It is the music which makes it
what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a
saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of
the high mansions of the sky.”
and
“It is difficult to get a man
to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
and
“Human beings suffer agonies,
and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and
playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source
of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.”
Donald Hall (1928 – ):
“I read poems for the pleasure
of the mouth. My heart is in my mouth, and the sound of poetry is the way
in."
and
“To desire to write poems that
endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood
we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it”
“When I was nineteen,
I told a thirty-
year-old man what a
fool I had been when
I was seventeen.
'We were always,' he
said glancing down, 'a
fool two years ago.”
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