Today is the birthday of the following people:
T.S. Eliot (1888 –
1965):
“The very existence
of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future
of man.”
and
“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous
thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.”
Jane Smiley (1949 -
):
“Many people, myself
among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
and
“Every first draft is
perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.”
Serena Williams (1981
- ):
“You can be whatever
size you are, and you can be beautiful both inside and out. We're always told
what's beautiful and what's not, and that's not right.”
Mark Haddon (1962 -
):
“I think prime
numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the
rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them”
and
“I want my name to
mean me.”
Will Self (1961 - ):
“Always carry a
notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for
three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for
ever.”
and
“Here we meet, on the
page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age
and nationality.”
Bryan Ferry (1945 –
):
“Loneliness is a
crowded room.”
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