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"Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good."

Dr. Samuel Johnson
(09/18/1709 – 12/13/1784)
English writer, lexicographer

"Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician."

Matthew Prior
(07/21/1664 – 09/18/1721)
English writer

"Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape."

William Hazlitt
(04/10/1778 – 09/18/1830)
English writer

"He's always backing into the limelight."

Lord Berners
(09/18/1883 – 04/19/1950)
English composer , on T. E. Lawrence

"...then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down...and kissed him. And the world cracked open."

Agnes de Mille
(09/18/1905 – 10/07/1993)
US dancer, choreographer (niece of Cecil B. de Mille)

"Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?"

Greta Garbo
(09/18/1905 – 04/15/1990)
Swedish actor

"When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over."

George MacDonald
(12/10/1824 – 09/18/1905)
Scottish writer, minister

"I'd like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back. Thank you, Dee Dee, you're very wonderful."

Dee Dee Ramone
(09/18/1952 – 06/05/2002)
US bassist (Ramones) (also see Joey Ramone) , on induction into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame

"I'm a neurotic mess. I'm really basically just like a 260-pound Woody Allen."

James Gandolfini
(09/18/1961 – )
US actor

"The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision."

Dag Hammarskjold
(07/29/1905 – 09/18/1961)
Swedish diplomat

"When one has reached 81 . . . one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it."

Sean O'Casey
(03/30/1880 – 09/18/1964)
Irish writer

"I rate censors, particularly those of church and state, as low as I rate character assassins; they often run together."

J. Frank Dobie
(09/26/1888 – 09/18/1964)
US writer

"It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you're dead, you're made for life."

Jimi Hendrix
(11/27/1942 – 09/18/1970)
US guitarist, singer, songwriter

"Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else."

Katherine Anne Porter
(05/15/1890 – 09/18/1980)
US writer

"Flowers grow out of dark moments."

"Sister" Corita Kent
(11/20/1918 – 09/18/1986)
US artist

"The girls kick the hell out of the guys. I've always played well at the Ivy League...Cornell, Dartmouth. I have never encountered a berating woman."

Russ Meyer
(03/21/1946 – 09/18/2004)
US director , on the success of his movies with women

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